A cyclist rides on a flooded road caused by heavy rainstorm in Tongzhou district, Beijing, August 8, 2018. [Photo/IC] Beijing plans to establish a shared information platform to monitor meteorological hazards, as a way to reduce or avoid the potential loss and damage from weather-related disasters.The decision was set in a regulation, considered the first regarding weather prevention in Beijing, that was passed by the capital's top legislature on Friday, aiming to improve its meteorological disaster prevention mechanisms. The regulation stipulates that the related departments of Beijing can adopt emergency measures, such as temporary traffic control and water usage limits, to improve the prevention capacity of the city. According to the regulation, the Beijing municipal government should conduct surveys every five years over the city's disaster categories, strength and losses, and make the results public. It also emphasizes that any units or individuals who spread unauthorized information about weather-related disasters will be punished. The regulation will be carried out on January 1 next year. cool things to do with rubber braceletsrubber band braceletscreate your own rubber bracelet cheap24 hour wristbandssilicone wristbands
Mother and baby afflicted by Zika fight poverty, despair at the Altino Ventura rehabilitation center in Recife, Brazil, Aug 6, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING-- Chinese researchers have disclosed that the mosquitoes incubated in Zika virus (ZIKV) contaminated water can be infected by the virus. In the classic ZIKV transmission cycle, mosquitoes acquire the virus via biting an infected patient when infectious viral particles are released into the saliva of the mosquitoes. The mosquitos then transmit the virus to healthy people. Before being able to fly, mosquitoes grow up in water from spawn to larvae to pupae. The researchers from Tsinghua University and Beijing Normal University collected urine samples from 89 healthy people and found that ZIKV can survive in human urine. The researchers mixed healthy urine with ZIKV and found that up to four percent of the mosquitoes that emerged from the infected urine were ZIKV positive. Some of the infected mosquitoes transmitted ZIKV to animals. Furthermore, the researchers collected several sewage samples to cultivate the mosquito pupae, and urine containing a low amount of ZIKV was continuously added to the sewage sample every three hours, which simulated the urination of ZIKV patients. In this sewage condition, mosquitoes acquired ZIKV and obtained the ability to transmit the virus to animals. The result indicated that mosquitoes breeding in a water system contaminated by human urine containing ZIKV can carry and transmit ZIKV. This new potential transmission approach may accelerate the dissemination of ZIKV in nature. The study emphasized the importance of improving the sanitary system in mosquito-borne disease epidemic regions and providing new possible avenues for interrupting the mosquito-borne virus transmission cycle in nature. The stability of ZIKV is determined by the acid and alkali degree, said Cheng Gong, a professor of Tsinghua University. The virus activity dived when the pH value was reduced lower than 6.5. Thus water pH value control could also be a ZIKV prevention method. All of our findings are based on laboratory experiments, said Cheng. We need to do further research through field investigations. custom wristbandscute rubber band braceletscustom charm braceletsrubber wristbandssilicone bracelets<%2fcenter>
