![]() The oceans are also a temperature stabilizer of our body, you know, of the body planet. So not just fish, but iPhones and, you know, tennis shoes and grain and oil. If you think of it as the commercial circulatory system, 80% of our commerce gets to us cheaply and efficiently. ![]() The lungs of the planet – 50% of the air we breathe – are cleaned by the oceans. I mean, if you think of the planet Earth as a living organism, maybe metaphorically. Many of us might feel like, well, my connection with the ocean is when I buy some fish for dinner. The catch is being all loaded on a fourth. The guys working in there, getting abused, are from a third. A lot of them have signed contracts in languages they don’t even speak.Ĭan a Democrat win over rural Ohio? Tim Ryan gives it a shot.Īnd the boss of the is from one country. Most often the victims of those sorts of crimes are poor, are folks from developing nations. The reality of the high seas is it’s so incredibly sprawling, two-thirds of the planet.Īnd then when it comes specifically to the category of abuses of crimes that pertain to people – murder on camera and slavery and abuse of stowaways and wage theft and abandonment of crew, you know, all these human rights and labor abuses – a contributing factor to that subcategory of crimes is who’s getting harmed. You explore what you call the “outlaw ocean.” Why are oceans so different from land – and so difficult to police?įrom the perspective of governance, you have this situation where the high seas belong to everyone and no one, and therefore jurisdictionally it’s an unusually complicated, murky space. In an interview with the Monitor’s Mark Trumbull, he discussed the issues that make oceans important and why, in his words, “I’m going to double down on this.” He also points to paths toward solutions – and hope. The comments have been edited for length. Host Ian Urbina talked with us about solutions. However, until recently, some of the syrups were still being sold in private clinics and in hospitals, he said.A new podcast explores difficult ocean issues that are both above and below the waterline, from slavery to fishery depletion. He said the number of deaths has tapered off in recent weeks and that the sale of products made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals was banned. ![]() Gambia's director of health services, Mustapha Bittaye, said similar problems have been detected in other syrups but that the ministry is awaiting confirmation of the results. The deaths confounded medics before a pattern emerged: dozens of patients younger than five were falling ill three to five days after taking a locally sold paracetamol syrup. Medical officers in Gambia raised the alarm in July, after dozens of children began falling ill with kidney problems. Lab analysis confirmed "unacceptable" amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, which can be toxic and lead to acute kidney injury, the WHO said. The alert covers four products: Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup. ![]() The products may have been distributed elsewhere through informal markets, but had so far been identified only in Gambia, the WHO said in its alert. The WHO issued a medical product alert on Wednesday asking regulators to remove Maiden Pharma goods from the market. India's health ministry did not respond to a request for comment. Maiden Pharma declined to comment, while calls and messages to the Drugs Controller General of India went unanswered. agency was conducting an investigation with Indian regulators and the company that made the syrups, New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd. The findings, announced by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, followed tests on several medicinal syrups that were suspected of causing 66 child deaths in the tiny West African country. ![]() The deaths of dozens of young children in Gambia from acute kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. ![]()
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