Federal health minister,Nicola Roxon, says forcing the vessel to cancel a planned 10-day trip around the Great Barrier Reef is a necessary precaution.

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a 15-kilometer-wide barrier of trees that would cross 11 countries and halt the spread of the Sahara.

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"And their struggle and barrier is having an adequate health workforce and facilities for the kind of high-tech things that happen to mothers that are at risk " In contrast,Boufford says developed nations have excellent medical technology.

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