Nov 12, 2023 at 10:59 p.m
Because negative news often dominates NU.nl, positive news is sometimes obscured. That is why we list cheerful messages every week. This time, among other things, a prize for the approach to malaria in Suriname and the long-beaked echidna has been spotted again.
Suriname receives international prize for malaria control
Suriname is the first country in the Amazon region that has had no local cases of malaria since 2021. The country is surrounded by countries with high rates of malaria, but there is no local transmission. Suriname received an award from the Pan-American health organization PAHO for tackling the disease.
In 2005, Suriname started a five-year control program. Residents received mosquito nets and houses were sprayed. Patients were traced and treated.
The Dutch are the most digitally skilled Europeans
Almost 80 percent of all Dutch people aged twelve or older have basic digital skills. In no other European country can relatively so many people use a computer, internet or software. The Netherlands has therefore already achieved its 2030 digitalization target.
Our country is narrowly above Finland. Ireland is in third place by a greater distance. According to statistics agency CBS, the Dutch are the best at online communication.
Surgeons perform first successful eye transplant
Surgeons in New York have succeeded in transplanting an entire eye for the first time. Although the recipient sees nothing through it, it is a medical breakthrough.
The eye was transplanted six months ago as part of a partial face transplant. The left side of the patient’s face was severely damaged in a work-related accident.
The eye continues to function properly. The blood vessels are working and the retina looks promising.
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American receives world’s first complete eye transplant
Long-beaked echidna seen again in Indonesia after sixty years
Scientists have spotted a long-beaked echidna in Indonesia. It was long thought that the mammal, named after biologist David Attenborough, had disappeared from the country. The animal has not been seen there for sixty years.
The echidna has only been seen once in Indonesia. That happened in 1961. The species also lives in Australia and New Guinea.
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Even more news that made us happy:
“Huup, Huup, Barbatruc!”: Barbapapa is included in the after fifty years Van Dale. The children’s series dates from the 1970s and has been broadcast in more than forty countries. A 13 meter high wave created a new one surfrecord for women. Laura Enever surfed the wave to a new world record. The mystery of the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been resolved after fifty years. It was unclear for a long time who the man on the cover was. His name was Lot Long and he died in 1893. A baby African elephant was born in Beekse Bergen. With the birth of the elephant calf, the zoo wants to contribute to the protection of the species. A birth wave in GaiaZOO. A giraffe, vicuña (a South American camelid) and a rare spider monkey have been born.
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