Wong says this year there will be 80 women that will be part of the workforce for the tournament. There are 8 Women’s teams that will be playing in the tournament that include, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, PNG, New Caledonia, Nauru and Cook Islands. Oceania Rugby will b...
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Meanwhile, the Fiji Men's 7s Team has won the Oceania Men International 7s defeating Japan 33-0. Fiji's tries came from Sevuloni Mocenacagi, Simione Kuruvoli and Napolioni Ratu while Waisea Nacqu scored twice. The Fiji Men's team will face Samoa or Australia in...
rooted in superstition and indigenous religion, which will eventually be displaced by a more powerful scientific biomedicine (Strathern and Strathern1999). A study of traditional medicine in Oceania (and probably anywhere else) reveals that it is, in fact, a dynamic body which...
Turner, G. (1983)Samoa. A hundred years ago and long before. Together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific(Facsimile ed.). Papakura: R.McMillan. Whistler, W. A. (1985). Traditional and herbal medicine in the cook islands.Journal of Ethnopharm...
Arboviruses present an ongoing challenge to Oceanic nations. Viruses including Ross River, Barmah Forest and Murray Valley encephalitis are endemic to the region and are responsible for occasional outbreaks. Recent epidemics of chikungunya, Zika and deng
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Review The History of Bancroftian Lymphatic Filariasis in Australasia and Oceania: Is There a Threat of Re-Occurrence in Mainland Australia? Catherine A. Gordon 1,* ID , Malcolm K. Jones 2 and Donald P. McManus 1 1 Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, QIMR...