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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Europa steun SA se boere | http://m.news24.com/nuus24/Wereld/Nuus/Europa-steun-SA-se-boere-20120307 #Nuus #OPA

Europa steun SA se boere

By: Leopold Scholtz2012-03-07 07:02
Den Haag – Die Europese Parlement het die plaasmoorde in Suid-Afrika veroordeel.

Drie regse lede van die parlement het die voortou vir die verklaring geneem.

Hulle is Philip Claeys van die Vlaams Belang (België), Aldreas Mölzer van die Vrye Party van Oostenryk (FPÖ) en Fiorello Provero van die Lega Nord (Italië).

Wat egter vir Suid-Afrika van groot belang is, is dat dit breë steun oor die meeste politieke grense heen gekry het. Dit is onderteken deur 48 lede van 19 lidstate.

Onder hulle is liberale, Christen-demokrate, sosialiste, konserwatiewe, onafhanklikes en selfs 'n lid van die kommunistiese koukus. Die Groenes was die enigste koukus waar niemand dit wou teken nie.

In die verklaring word gewys op die stelselmatige karakter van die aanvalle op die wit boere. Die Suid-Afrikaanse regering word versoek om dringende maatreëls te tref om die boere se veiligheid te verbeter.

Een van die ondertekenaars, Derk Jan Eppink – 'n Nederlander wat namens Vlaamse kiesers in die Europese Parlement sit – het aan Beeld verduidelik hy het dit gedoen omdat die plaasmoorde in Suid-Afrika veels te min aandag in die Europese media kry.

"Baie mense dink dit sal wel die boere se eie skuld wees omdat hulle hul werkers mishandel. Dit is nie die geval nie; die meeste behandel hulle goed en stuur selfs die kinders skool toe.

"Die morele verontwaardiging in Europa oor byvoorbeeld die lot van die Brasiliaanse Indiane is veel groter as dié oor die plaasmoorde in Suid-Afrika. Dit moet end kry."

Eppink het gesê dis goed dat die verklaring oor so 'n breë politieke spektrum gesteun is. "Ek hoop dat die verklaring ook die grondslag vir die betrekkinge tussen die Europese Unie en Suid-Afrika kan word."  

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2012-03-08

Friday, January 20, 2012

Mountain Gorilla

Check out this amazing video on YouTube:

Touched by a Wild Mountain Gorilla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eXS0o6r-Wk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Have a great weekend.

Lizette De Klerk

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Friday, January 13, 2012

New Lyme research supports peristance of LD behond short term antibiotics

...more research that further supports what we patients knew all along, that we were/are still sick with active infection beyond the Infectious Disease doctor recommended treatment period.  It is not this never-proven hypothesis that we now had an auto-immune disease requiring no further antibiotics.  These researchers showed this same thing in mice before but were criticized because miceas too removed from humans for it to mean anything.  The rhesus macaque is as close to humans we are going to get without using humans.
 

Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Rhesus Macaques following Antibiotic Treatment of Disseminated Infection.

"Our studies do however offer proof of the principle that intact spirochetes can persist in an incidental host comparable to humans, following antibiotic therapy. Additionally, our experiments uncover residual antigen associated with inflammatory foci."

Embers ME, Barthold SW, Borda JT, Bowers L, Doyle L, et al. (2012) Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Rhesus Macaques following Antibiotic Treatment of Disseminated Infection. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29914. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029914

Abstract

The persistence of symptoms in Lyme disease patients following antibiotic therapy, and their causes, continue to be a matter of intense controversy. The studies presented here explore antibiotic efficacy using nonhuman primates.

Rhesus macaques were infected with B. burgdorferi and a portion received aggressive antibiotic therapy 4–6 months later.

Multiple methods were utilized for detection of residual organisms, including the feeding of lab-reared ticks on monkeys (xenodiagnosis), culture, immunofluorescence and PCR.

Antibody responses to the B. burgdorferi-specific C6 diagnostic peptide were measured longitudinally and declined in all treated animals.

B. burgdorferi antigen, DNA and RNA were detected in the tissues of treated animals.

Finally, small numbers of intact spirochetes were recovered by xenodiagnosis from treated monkeys.

These results demonstrate that B. burgdorferi can withstand antibiotic treatment, administered post-dissemination, in a primate host.

Though B. burgdorferi is not known to possess resistance mechanisms and is susceptible to the standard antibiotics (doxycycline, ceftriaxone) in vitro, it appears to become tolerant post-dissemination in the primate host.

This finding raises important questions about the pathogenicity of antibiotic-tolerant persisters and whether or not they can contribute to symptoms post-treatment.

 
http://www.canlyme.com/Barthold_Jan_2012.html

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Jim Wilson
Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
www.canlyme.com