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Southeast Asian ovalocytosis is a blood disorder that is similar to, but distinct from hereditary elliptocytosis. [1] It is common in some communities in Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, as it confers some resistance to cerebral Falciparum Malaria. [2]
Te Whāriki is a bi-cultural curriculum that sets out four broad principles, a set of five strands, and goals for each strand.It does not prescribe specific subject-based lessons, rather it provides a framework for teachers and early childhood staff (kaiako) to encourage and enable children in developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, learning dispositions to learn how to learn.
At the same time, the Māori suffered high mortality rates from Eurasian infectious diseases, such as influenza, smallpox and measles, which killed an unknown number of Māori: estimates vary between 10 and 50 per cent. [61] [62] The spread of epidemics resulted largely from the Māori lacking acquired immunity to the new diseases. The 1850s ...
Complication Disorders Soft tissue bleeding, e.g. deep-muscle bleeding, leading to swelling, numbness or pain of a limb.: Hemophilia [7]; Von Willebrand disease [8]; Joint damage, potentially with severe pain and even destruction of the joint and development of arthritis
Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc)(also known as Levine-Critchley syndrome, acanthocytosis with neurologic disorder, neuroacanthocytosis, and choreoacanthocytosis) [53] is a rare hereditary disease caused by a mutation of the gene that directs structural proteins in red blood cells. It belongs to a group of four diseases characterized as ...
Social upheaval and epidemics of introduced disease took a devastating toll on the Māori population, which fell dramatically, but began to recover by the beginning of the 20th century. The March 2023 New Zealand census gives the number of people of Māori descent as 978,246 (19.6% of the total population), an increase of 12.5% since 2018. [15 ...
When the phlegm gathers, the child quickly "cools" and the blood congeals, causing death. The elderly for the most part survive the disease due to the Hippocratic theory that their veins are larger and filled with hot, flowing blood that is safe from the coldness of the phlegm. Summary of symptoms. Shivering; Loss of speech; Trouble breathing
After the 1835 Māori invasion, all Moriori were either killed, died of newly introduced diseases, or were enslaved. The language and culture of the survivors became intermingled with the Māori language and society before records were made by Europeans. This makes most of what is now known of the pre-contact Moriori the subject of conjecture.