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Offline Bialy Rycesz

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #510 on: September 09, 2007, 07:34:43 AM »
Zambia!
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Offline Delfos

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #511 on: September 09, 2007, 02:38:47 PM »
why so?

clue: A free Hospital in this country was awarded recently for their work against blindness.
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #512 on: September 09, 2007, 06:58:47 PM »
I think I heard in a Geography lesson once that Ghana had approx 1% of population contracting blindness. Sounds like a pretty high percentage to me...
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #513 on: September 09, 2007, 07:26:37 PM »
I'm gonna guess India...
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #514 on: September 09, 2007, 07:34:50 PM »
Do you mean #1 in sheer number of cases of blindness, or relative to the country's population?
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #515 on: September 09, 2007, 08:37:15 PM »
I thought it was find the country that had a free hospital that was awarded for their work against blindness.
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #516 on: September 09, 2007, 08:39:26 PM »
Quote from: Delfos on September 09, 2007, 05:10:00 AM
Next: This country is the #1 in cases of blindness. My theory, based on discovering that ambient can change genes, is that this country must have something on the air or soil or water that makes people blind or something..., anyway, 1st piece of info is the only relevant.

That was the first clue, the hospital bit was the second.
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #517 on: September 09, 2007, 09:19:44 PM »
India, that's correct. Champalimaud offered a 2 million euro prize to an hospital in India, it's free, just walk in blind and walk out cured. next...
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #518 on: September 11, 2007, 10:18:10 AM »
my guess was on the basis of it was the most cases of blindness but I think it was from vitamin A deficiency not the air !
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"Those who forget the past are comdemned to repeat it"-George Santayana
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #519 on: September 11, 2007, 01:22:08 PM »
when you say most cases of blindness you can't count in number of population, like myro does sometimes. It's all about percentages, India has the highest percentage of population with vision deficiency, I don't know if it's the air or not, that's just a theory. It's 1% or 0,1% or something like that, can't remember very well.
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #520 on: September 11, 2007, 04:44:28 PM »
1 in a 100 is pretty damn high...
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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #521 on: September 11, 2007, 05:34:04 PM »
specially in India, that's why i think it's not 1%, but i know it's an high percentage. Let me search...

http://timesfoundation.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1736739.cms
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Offline Bialy Rycesz

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #522 on: September 11, 2007, 11:50:34 PM »
yeah, that is high simply on the grounds of India's huge population!
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"The threat is more powerful than its execution"-Emmanuel Lasker
"My vengeance is awake and she is a falcon that slumbers not till fully gorged"-Ivanhoe
"Come,the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge"-Hamlet
"It is always better to sacrifice your opponents men"-Savielly Tartakower
"Those who forget the past are comdemned to repeat it"-George Santayana
"In every enterprise consider where you would come out"-Publilius Syrus
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once"-Julius Caesar

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #523 on: September 12, 2007, 03:34:14 AM »
where's the next country to guess?
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Offline Bialy Rycesz

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Re: Guess the Country
« Reply #524 on: September 12, 2007, 04:15:46 AM »
we are waiting on the babble fish
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"The threat is more powerful than its execution"-Emmanuel Lasker
"My vengeance is awake and she is a falcon that slumbers not till fully gorged"-Ivanhoe
"Come,the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge"-Hamlet
"It is always better to sacrifice your opponents men"-Savielly Tartakower
"Those who forget the past are comdemned to repeat it"-George Santayana
"In every enterprise consider where you would come out"-Publilius Syrus
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once"-Julius Caesar
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