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Mason plans to spend next year researching tropical medicine in Thailand. He will be based at Mahidol University in Bangkok, and will do fieldwork on drug-resistant strains of malaria in the Ratchaburi province...
Mason, a biology concentrator, wrote his senior thesis on computer modelling of malaria infection...
...They told me I won on my birthday. I was surprised and very happy," said Mason, who will leave in September to begin his malaria research...
...government in Phnom Penh--had good reason to prefer his death to a revealing trial. But the 73-year-old's health had been failing. A stroke in 1995 paralyzed much of his left side, he was taking medicine for a heart complaint, and he suffered from chronic malaria. For the past three weeks he had been hustled between safe houses near the Thai border to avoid shelling. As government forces aided by growing legions of Khmer Rouge defectors closed in, Pol Pot must have realized the end was near...
Researchers speculate that overexposure to permethrin may have sparked a process of natural selection in lice. A similar use of preventive insecticides encouraged the rise of resistant strains of the mosquitoes and black flies responsible for transmitting malaria and African river blindness. Although no definitive studies on resistant strains of head lice have been completed in the U.S. (results of a Harvard investigation won't be ready for several months), two recent papers from Israel and the Czech Republic seem to support the resistant-strain theory. Says Thomas Bell, health officer for three counties in Washington State...