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The Malaria Atlas Project aims to map global levels of malaria, providing a way to determine the global spatial limits of the disease and to assess disease burden. [218] [219] This effort led to the publication of a map of P. falciparum endemicity in 2010 and an update in 2019. [220] [221] [222] As of 2021, 84 countries have endemic malaria. [17]
Los Zetas was named after its first commander, Arturo Guzmán Decena, whose Federal Judicial Police radio code was "Z1", [34] a code given to high-ranking officers. [35] [36] [37] The radio code for commanding Federal Judicial Police officers in Mexico was "Y" and those officers are nicknamed "Yankees", while Federal Judicial Police in charge of a city was codenamed "Z"; thus they were ...
San Diego–Tijuana is an international transborder agglomeration, [5] straddling the border of the adjacent North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States, and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The 2020 population of the region was 5,456,577, making it the largest bi-national conurbation shared between the United States ...
September 23, 2024 at 12:11 PM. Anna Rose Layden/Reuters. The rapidly escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is further threatening President Joe Biden’s efforts to reduce ...
Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. [ 5 ] There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and. hemorrhagic, due to bleeding.
The Mexican–American War, [ a ] also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, [ b ] was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory because it refused to ...
Indian auxiliaries from Mexico (mostly Tlaxcalans) [2] Wokou (Japanese, Chinese, and Korean pirates) Victory. Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) Battle of San Juan de Ulúa (1568) Battle of Santo Domingo (1586) Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation. Watts' West Indies and Virginia expedition. Blockade of Western Cuba.
Chihuahua (state) Chihuahua (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃiˈwawa] ⓘ), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (English: Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is located in the northwestern part of Mexico and is bordered by the ...