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Learn About Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP) | American Lung Association

Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) is a form of interstitial lung disease where the small airways (bronchioles) and alveoli (tiny air sacs) become inflamed, leading to difficulty breathing and flu-like illness. — Read at http://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/cryptogenic-organizing-pneumonia/learn-about-cryptogenic-organizing-pneumonia What Causes COP? The condition is called “cryptogenic” because in most cases, the cause is unknown. Doctors believe that there areFortsätt läsa ”Learn About Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP) | American Lung Association”

Tantalum – resource of conflict

Tantalum is considered a conflict resource. Coltan, the industrial name for a columbite-tantalite mineral from which niobium and tantalum are extracted, can also be found in Central Afrika, which is why tantalum is being linked to warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). According to an October 23, 2003 United Nations report,Fortsätt läsa ”Tantalum – resource of conflict”

Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Facts Born: 1948, Zanzibar  Prize motivation: ”for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”