Population in the News

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Population News Friday December 22nd 2006

Study Projects Flu Pandemic May Kill 81 Million Worldwide
(Fox News: Fri, 22 Dec) Researchers applied estimated levels of deaths from 1918 Spanish flu epidemic to worldwide population data from 2004; study estimates 96 percent of deaths would occur in developing world.

Largest study of Indian genetic variation underway
(ANI via Yahoo! India News: Fri, 22 Dec) Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): The genetic variations in India's population are mind-boggling, and though they account for one sixth's of the world's entire population, they have so far been underrepresented in studies related to genetic diseases. But now, all that is going to change. A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), ...

State shrinks by 5%, report shows
(New Orleans Times-Picayune: Fri, 22 Dec) A Census Bureau report released Thursday shows that the state's population shrank by 220,000 people, or 5 percent, in the year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the largest one-year migration from an American state since the wholesale community disruptions of the World War II era, the bureau said.

Researchers make progress in studying genetic traits of India-born populations
(EurekAlert!: Fri, 22 Dec) Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 21, 2006 - Despite the fact that the people of India constitute more than one-sixth of the world's entire population, they have been underrepresented in studies related to genetic diseases.

Ratio between housing price, income too high for Beijing people to accept
(People's Daily: Fri, 22 Dec) The average ratio between housing price and income, an index indicating the degree to which housing is affordable by the local population, is now as high as 9.4 in Beijing, the capital,much higher than the average level of many metropolises in the world.

POPULATION POSER
(Aljazeera: Thu, 21 Dec) The downward revision of the population count is based on the national birth rate staying at the current level of 1.26 children per woman, the report said.

GLACIER FOOD-CRISIS FEAR
(New York Post: Fri, 22 Dec) NEW DELHI - A team of Chinese and Indian scientists plans to chart Himalayan glaciers feared to be rapidly melting because of global warming - threatening rivers that help feed one-sixth of the world's population. Two expeditions, announced...

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