From the age of two months to ten years, more than 90% of the cases of meningitis are caused by Hemophilus influenzae, meningococci, or pneumococci. Currently, infants can be vaccinated against H. influenza (group B) and N. pneumonia. Hemophilus meningitis is rare after the age of ten.
The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. It is located in the middle of the tree gorges on the Yangtze River, the third longest in the world, in the Hubei Province of China. The project was approved by the Chinese government in 1992.
Priest Rapids Dam is located on the Columbia River, 24 miles south of Vantage and 200 miles downstream from Grand Coulee Dam. The dam was named in recognition of the Wanapum religious leader Smowhalla and the small band of indigenous people that lived during the winter at a village near the last of seven rapids, called Priest Rapids. A small group of the Wanapum continues to live alongside the tailrace of the dam.