Disease relevance of Machette

• These cyanobacteria were found to be more tolerant to 2,4-D (lethal doses 1500-2000 micrograms/ml) than to Machete and Saturn (lethal doses 6-8 micrograms/ml) [1].
• During the initial six week period of deployment and jungle training in Belize, a 634 man strong infantry battalion group sustained twenty-three machete hand injuries [2].

High impact information on Machette

• For the period March to November 1998 inclusive, a prospective survey was conducted of all patients who sustained injuries with a cutlass or machete and were admitted to the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Of the 77 patient admissions, 81% (62/77) were male [3].
• We describe a case of radial nerve injury resulting from a machete attack in Haiti [4].
• Over a period of 3 months from April to June 1994, between half and one million Rwandese, a significant proportion of them women and children, were murdered in brutal hand-to-hand killing, dying from close-quarter gunshot and machete slaughter [5].

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