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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

VDU’s blog: Bats in a tree…

Of course this will raise the usual question of whether we cull all bats to prevent this from ever happening again. Don’t be ignorant! Bats have very important roles in pollinating and thus in keeping our ecosystem going. Should we kill all bees because they sting us? I’m pretty sure I’ve been stung by a bee more times than I’ve had Ebola/Hendra/SARS/Nipah/MERS/Lyssavirus or any other bat-hosted virus infection. Killing off everything to prevent a very rare zoonotic event when better knowledge can resolve the problem is just a typically short-sighted and knee-jerk human reaction (not a fan-can you guess?).

One question that does still remain, and one that is of extreme interest to me, is how often mild disease results from an Ebola virus infection? Good, robust serology methods to the rescue.

via VDU’s blog: Bats in a tree….

2015 is knockin’ at our doors…:-)

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N.B. ce post est dédié à ma famille internationale & à mes lecteurs constants et fidèles: merci & vive la différence! ❤ 🙂

motto:”Courent les années, mais le temps de l’âme est immuable…”(Eugène Cloutier)

malgré les distances géographiques, parfois immenses, internet est devenu notre outil principal pour communiquer et garder le contact avec nos familles et nos amis sur tous les méridiens… je pense que notre vie ressemble à une aire de jeux, mais c’est à nous d’établir nos propres règles… 🙂 voici le menu de cette nouvelle année: commencez avec un cocktail de bonheur, dégustez le velouté d’amitié et son gratiné de santé, régalez-vous avec le filet d’amour et sa sauce “folie”, puis finissez en douceur avec la bûche d’harmonie… enfin, savourez chaque seconde de la nouvelle année sous une pluie de champagne et une cascade de sourires… rappelons-nous que tous les jours sont UNIQUES et que chaque année…

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2014 in review: Thank You!

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Silvia Writes

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,400 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

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URGENT!!! Threats and harassment against the ejidatarios of San Sebastián Bachajón

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URGENT!!! Threats and harassment against the ejidatarios of San Sebastián Bachajón

 CASETA-COBRO

URGENT!!!

December 30, 2014

We the adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle from San Sebastián Bachajon, are resisting and protecting our territory

The officialist (government-supporting) ejidal commissioner of San Sebastián Bachajón, Alejandro Moreno Gómez, and his vigilance councillor, Samuel Díaz Guzmán, have threatened to displace us and to raise arrest warrants against us.

In an approach that was between the ejidatarios of the Sixth and delegates from the Chiapas state government to seek a dialogue between the ejidatarios of the Sixth and the ruling party, the government people demanded that we withdraw from the recovered land, so as to tell the ejidal commissioner and his people that dialogue was agreed.

This demand was accompanied by threats that if we did not leave the land we would be displaced and arrest warrants issued against us.

For…

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