May 11, 2008 by asgard14.

Faced with an alarming incidence of HIV/AIDS among African Americans and Latinos, the nation urgently needs to begin a domestic program to curb the spread of the disease, according to a nationally recognized AIDS policy expert.

“It’s not on the radar screen. There are not enough voices being raised,” said Dr. Beny J. Primm, executive director of the Addiction Research and Treatment Corp. in Brooklyn, N.Y.

More than 40,000 new cases of HIV/AIDS are reported each year in the U.S., and 60 percent of the people afflicted are African American, he said.

Primm, a former federal health official in the administration of President George H.W. Bush, was in Hartford Sunday to receive an award from the Greater Hartford chapter of the Links Inc., an organization of professional women of color.

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January 17, 2008 by webmaster.

In a comprehensive genetic study, scientists have found what they say is the strongest evidence yet linking the first European explorers of the New World to the origin of sexually transmitted syphilis.
The research, they say, supports the hypothesis that returning explorers introduced organisms leading, in probably modified forms, to the first recorded syphilis epidemic, beginning in Europe in 1493.
The so-called Columbus hypothesis had previously rested on circumstantial evidence, mainly the timing of the epidemic. It was further noted that earlier traces of syphilis or related diseases had been few and inconclusive in Europe. Yet nonvenereal forms of the diseases were widespread in the American tropics.
Leaders of the new study said the most telling results were that the bacterium causing sexually transmitted syphilis arose relatively recently in humans and was closely related to a strain responsible for the nonvenereal infection known as yaws. The similarity was especially evident, the researchers said, in a variation of the yaws pathogen isolated recently among afflicted children in a remote region of Guyana in South America.

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December 15, 2007 by webmaster.

A new study is providing insights into the genetics of homosexuality — at least in fruit flies.
Researchers have discovered a gene involved in homosexual behavior in the tiny flies. They also found a way to turn homosexuality on and off with drugs.
Humans have a similar gene. But it’s unclear what effect, if any, the gene has on homosexual behavior in people, said biologist David Featherstone of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Featherstone and colleagues described their findings in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
After a century of study on fruit flies, researchers have accumulated a vast storehouse of genetic knowledge. UIC researchers were using fruit flies to study muscular dystrophy when they discovered a gene they call “gender blind,” or GB.

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December 1, 2007 by webmaster.

The Negro-run Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta has served as the first place of healthcare for generations of Negro violence in that city, from victims of stabbings and shootings, and motorists grievously injured in Atlanta’s murderous rush-hour traffic.
Now, Grady itself is in grave condition. Staggering under a deficit projected at $55 million, the city’s only public hospital could close at the end of the year, leaving Atlanta without a major trauma center and foisting thousands of Negroes onto emergency rooms at other hospitals for their routine medical care.
A proposed switch to a nonprofit governing board is being opposed by the hospital’s Negro board. They say that the hospital “would be less committed to the poor, and that the board would go from mostly black to mostly white.”
Sen. Vincent Fort, a Negro Democrat from Atlanta, said that Grady is “absolutely critical” to the city’s black poor. And he charged that Atlanta’s “white power structure” including the business leaders and politicians who are pushing for the nonprofit board is trying to orchestrate a takeover.

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September 18, 2007 by webmaster.

Here is a partial list with origins of diseases, pests and parasites:
HIV/AIDS - Africa
Bubonic plague - Africa
Tuberculosis - Africa, South America
Syphilis - Africa, Asia
Leprosy - Asia, Africa, South America
Hepatitis - Africa, Asia and South America
Bird flu, Avian Flu, H5N1 - Asia
Anthrax - Africa, Asia
Black Death - Asia
Pneumonia - Africa
Dracunculiasis - Africa, Asia
Typhus - Asia
Scrub Typhus - Asia

Those are the so-called “German Cockroaches”. In fact they originate from Asia.

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August 24, 2007 by webmaster.

Recently, the European Union authorities have just discovered that Danone company uses some toxic chemicals in the process of producing the famous Danone yogurt. Danone imported the poisonous dioxin from India, Pakistan and South America and it’s using it in its “cool delicious fruit yogurt”.
By the power of money, everyone can lie anytime and simple people with no or little knowledge won’t even detect the lies. Once again the Romanian National Vanguard advises all our readers to stop trusting the TV, the publicity, the radio and all mass-media ways of informing.
Dioxin is one of the most powerful poisons on earth. Example: Viktor Yushchenko has been poisoned with a big quantity of dioxin in 2004 and he has been one little step away from death! If a pregnant woman consumes more then just 1 milligram of dioxin per 1 kilogram of food, it can produce serious intoxications or serious damage to the child. After the Romanian authorities have been informed by the European Union, they repealed all Danone yogurts from the market.

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