No political punches were pulled in German parliament as leftists attacked the government over Merkel’s Greece policy. But as the vote came, the socialists climbed into bed with the ultra-conservative wing of the CDU.
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Evidence that Reston ebolavirus resides in live bats in the Philippines…
| Jayme and colleagues find some “smoking bats”-possible bat reservoir species for Reston ebolavirus in the Philippines. |
@MackayIM all bats we sampled appeared clinically healthy.— Jonathan Epstein (@EpsteinJon) July 17, 2015
| Locating the Philippine RESTV sequences on the ebolavirus phylogenetic tree. Jayme et al. Virology J. (2105) 12:107.[1] |
- Cynopterus brachyotis (Lesser dog-faced fruit bat; range; fruit bat)
- Miniopterus australis (Little long-fingered or little bent-wing bat; range; insectivorous bat)
- Miniopterus schreibersii (Schreiber’s Bent-winged Bat; range; insectivorous bat)
- Chaerephon plicata (insectivorous bats)
What’s particularly interesting to me is that some of these bat species are found in Australia. However, keep in mind that the range of some (?many) bats may be underestimated. The example here is using the IUCN Red List’s described range for M. schreibersii-apparently it’s a bat that inhabits an area around the Mediterranean.[4] Last I looked, the Philippines is a bit south of there. In the past, as Wikipedia lists, a much bigger range was ascribed to this bat, also including Australia,[5] Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – among many others. Looks like there may be lots of work to do in the area of bat census.
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Molecular evidence of Ebola Reston virus infection in Philippine bats
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Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus
- Many details about bats to be found at the excellent IUCN Red List
http://bitly.com/1Joahtv - Population Structure of a Cave-Dwelling Bat, Miniopterus schreibersii: Does It Reflect History and Social Organization?
http://bitly.com/1fSnrrx - Seasonal movements of the Schreibers’ bat, Miniopterus schreibersii, in the northern Iberian Peninsulahttp://bitly.com/1JoafBT
Updates…
- Added bat specie range data (and discussion) from IUCN Red List and Wikipedia.
Havana: Afro-Cuban Culture
youngest sunflower … among elderly…
symbol of fortune – ladybug…so happy friday !!!
Dr Schäuble’s Plan for Europe: Do Europeans approve? – English version of my article in Die Zeit
On 15th July 2015 Die Zeit published this piece. Here is the original English language version.
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Palm Beach Chocolatier wins huge international award with Caribbean chocolates
Asylum case rattles Angela Merkel
An encounter filmed in North Germany between a tearful Palestinian refugee girl from Lebanon and Chancellor Angela Merkel has fueled a debate over asylum policy. 14-year-old Reem told Merkel her family faced deportation.
Former Head of Medicare to Head Lobbying Arm of Health Insurance Companies
www.german-foreign-policy.com – Greece, Germany – deja vu?
In several western and southern European countries, the agreement on Greece reached in Brussels signals a looming collapse of the continental post-war order and Germany’s revival as an ostentatious dictatorial power. Whereas social-democratic observers do not exclude an attenuation of the contradictions, southern European conservative media are among those who speak of a revival of German hegemonic ambitions, which had largely determined or triggered the First and Second World Wars. The consequences of the French-Italian submission during negotiations in Brussels are generating those fears, because Paris had not succeeded to and Rome had not even seriously attempted to thwart the German dictates of sovereignty over Greece. Both, Italy and France are aware of the dangers of becoming the next victim of German financial dictatorship. They are competing for admission in a northern European core Europe, whose membership will be decided by Berlin, in the case of a possible collapse of the European Union. Current events are directly linked to German foreign policy endeavors in the 1990s and the territorial expansion of Germany’s economic basis through the so-called reunification.
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