Racism at its worst – “Brown hoard” replaces “Yellow Hoards” and “Irish Hoards” of old! Evil as evil can be. The coverage tends to play on the fears that hiding among mass groups of immigrants are criminals, vectors of disease and terrorists.
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Trump Denies Knowing of Any Hush Money Paid to Porn Actress
ROTFLMAO In his first public remarks, President Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he knew nothing about $130,000 paid to the pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels.
The west must not just abandon the Balkans to Russia’s embrace | Ivor Roberts
#TraitorTrump cares not a whit!

The proposal to honour the late Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević with a statue in Belgrade reflects a wider power play
The commission for monuments and naming of streets and squares in Belgrade will soon rule on a proposal to erect a statue of Slobodan Milošević, Serbia’s late president, who led his country into and through the collapse of Yugoslavia and a series of calamitous wars in the 1990s.
This proposal, made by the youth wing of Milošević’s Socialist party (now back in government in Belgrade), tells us much about the state of politics in Serbia and the wider Balkans. To the west, Milošević – who died in 2006 while on trial for crimes against humanity at The Hague – was a war criminal; to many Serbs he was not only that but also the man who oversaw a collapse in living standards, the isolation of Serbia and the loss of swaths of territory that had once been majority Serb.
Trump defends Mexican rapists claim during conspiracy-laden speech
When rats are cornered – they get even wilder and more dangerous to the rest of us.

The president threw out his script at West Virginia event, speaking of voter ‘conspiracy theory’ and referencing his infamous 2015 remarks
Donald Trump veered wildly off-script at an event intended to tout the Republican tax bill on Thursday, making false claims about voter fraud and darkly warning of the menace of predominantly Hispanic gangs.
Trump, who spent much of the 2016 campaign alleging massive voter fraud, returned to the topic at the event in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
Trump says taking a serious look at policy options on Amazon
غزة …اعمي بدخان اطاراتك عيون لا تبصر
Gaza home of hope, despair, brutality, courage, love. When Gazans are finally free, the world will be amazed and free as well.
غزة …اعمي بدخان اطاراتك عيون لا تبصر 
هل من الصعب فهم سبب قوة غزة ؟ هل من الصعب استيعاب معنى التضحية بالجسد في ظلال حياة تخنق فيها الروح مع كل نفس ؟
سيخنقنا دخان غزة ؟
غزة التي تقاوم مقاومة الأبطال ، وتضحي تضحية الزاهد، وتناضل من أجل الوجود حتى الرمق الأخير ، نعجز دائما امام قوة أهلها مقابل عجزنا المخزي.
سيبقى مشهد اندفاع الناس في مسيرة سلمية نحو الحدود إلى بلدات لم ينس أصحابها مكانها، ولا يزال الكثيرون يحتفظون بمفاتيحها القديمة، وكواشين ملكية الارض وعقودها،وقنص قوات الاحتلال لهم ورشهم بوابل الرصاص، مشهدا يسجله التاريخ على بطش الاحتلال وظلم الحياة وخنوع الجميع من ساسة وحكام ارض.
بارتقاء ١٧ بطل وجرح العشرات من المحاربين من اجل حرية رمزية الأسبوع الفائت، ليس بالغريب على عزة فلسطين ان تقوي هكذا جريمة بشعة ابناءها. فهم لا يفهمون معنى تجريد الانسان من كل وسائل العيش وحرق القلوب وتجويع البطون. لا يفهمون معنى ان تتساوى الحياة…
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Panic In D.C.
I lived in DC at that time and attended American University. This was a summer of discord, hope, and hopes smashed when Martin was killed and then Bobby – while thousands marched to end the war and in the poor people’s march on Washington. We could be in for the same now because #TraitorTrump is not as smart as even Nixon was and there are so few with principles left in the GOP in DC now.
From the air, through the haze of smoke, the city looked like a battlefield. On April 5, a convoy of soldiers from Fort Myer in Virginia began rolling over Memorial Bridge into the city. More came in from Fort Meade in Maryland. Eventually, 13,000 troops would arrive — the most to occupy an American city since the Civil War.
Nature: Fatal Swine Acute Diarrhoea Syndrome Caused By An HKU2-related Coronavirus Of Bat Origin
Pandemic watching getting closer to source of primary vectors – next we will nail that it is human interventions that create the imbalances which give rise to viral outbreaks that are nature’s way of re-balancing the system
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| How Bat Viruses Jump Species |
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Until SARS emerged from China roughly 15 years ago (see SARS and Remembrance), only four coronaviruses (Alpha coronaviruses 229E and NL63, and Beta coronaviruses OC43 & HKU1) were known to infect humans.
These viruses generally produced mild upper respiratory illnesses in humans, are probably responsible for 15%-30% of the `common colds’ around the world, and only rarely migrate to the lower respiratory tract (cite).
In 2003 SARS-CoV emerged, followed in 2012 by the MERS-CoV virus, both causing severe, often fatal respiratory illness in humans. Both are zoonotic viruses spread via intermediary hosts, and are believed to be of bat-origin.
There are many other coronaviruses that infect other non-human species – including horses, cattle, and swine – but they are particularly common among bats.
In 2017 researchers from EcoHealth Alliance published a letter in Nature (Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals) providing the first comprehensive analysis of viruses known to infect mammals.
From their website summary:
The study shows that bats carry a significantly higher proportion of viruses able to infect people than any other group of mammals; and it identifies the species and geographic regions on the planet with the highest number of yet-to-be discovered, or ‘missing’, viruses likely to infect people. This work provides a new way to predict where and how we should work to identify and pre-empt the next potential viral pandemic before it emerges.
Last summer, in EID Journal: A New Bat-HKU2–like Coronavirus in Swine, China, 2017, we looked at the recent discovery of a new HKU2-like coronavirus in Chinese pigs showing symptoms of PED (Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea), which they tentatively dubbed porcine enteric alphacoronavirus (PEAV).
HKU2 is one of a number of coronaviruses discovered in the wild (in this case, in Horseshoe bats) by Hong Kong researchers in the years immediately following the SARS epidemic.
Fast forward to yesterday, and we get a letter (alas, behind a pay wall) in Nature that further describes this (or a very similar) virus isolated from pigs in Guangdong Province, and also finds a close match in nearly 10% of local bats they tested.
To help fill in the gaps we also have accompanying press releases from the NIH, and EcoHealth Alliance.
Letter
Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin
Peng Zhou, Hang Fan,[…] Jing-Yun Ma
Nature (2018)
doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0010-9
Download CitationPublished online:04 April 2018
Abstract
Cross-species transmission of viruses from wildlife animal reservoirs poses a marked threat to human and animal health1. Bats have been recognized as one of the most important reservoirs for emerging viruses and the transmission of a coronavirus that originated in bats to humans via intermediate hosts was responsible for the high-impact emerging zoonosis, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.
Here we provide virological, epidemiological, evolutionary and experimental evidence that a novel HKU2-related bat coronavirus, swine acute diarrhoea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV), is the aetiological agent that was responsible for a large-scale outbreak of fatal disease in pigs in China that has caused the death of 24,693 piglets across four farms.
Notably, the outbreak began in Guangdong province in the vicinity of the origin of the SARS pandemic. Furthermore, we identified SADS-related CoVs with 96–98% sequence identity in 9.8% (58 out of 591) of anal swabs collected from bats in Guangdong province during 2013–2016, predominantly in horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus spp.) that are known reservoirs of SARS-related CoVs.
We found that there were striking similarities between the SADS and SARS outbreaks in geographical, temporal, ecological and aetiological settings. This study highlights the importance of identifying coronavirus diversity and distribution in bats to mitigate future outbreaks that could threaten livestock, public health and economic growth.
From the NIH we get:
New coronavirus emerges from bats in China, devastates young swine Identified in same region, from same bats, as SARS coronavirus.
What
A newly identified coronavirus that killed nearly 25,000 piglets in 2016-17 in China emerged from horseshoe bats near the origin of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which emerged in 2002 in the same bat species. The new virus is named swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV).
It does not appear to infect people, unlike SARS-CoV which infected more than 8,000 people and killed 774. No SARS-CoV cases have been identified since 2004.
The study investigators identified SADS-CoV on four pig farms in China’s Guangdong Province. The work was a collaboration among scientists from EcoHealth Alliance, Duke-NUS Medical School, Wuhan Institute of Virology and other organizations, and was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. The research is published in the journal Nature.
The researchers say the finding is an important reminder that identifying new viruses in animals and quickly determining their potential to infect people is a key way to reduce global health threats.
SADS-CoV began killing piglets on a farm near Foshan in Guangdong Province in late October 2016. Investigators initially suspected porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) as the cause. PEDV is a type of coronavirus common to swine that had been identified at the Foshan farm. Detection of PEDV ceased by mid-January 2017, yet piglets continued to die, suggesting a different cause. Scientists say separating sick sows and piglets from the rest of the herd helped stop the outbreak of SADS-CoV by May 2017.
Investigators confirmed the connection of SADS-CoV to bats by identifying the new virus in the small intestine of piglets from the outbreak. They then determined that the genetic sequence of SADS-CoV is similar to that of a bat coronavirus discovered in 2007 and looked for evidence of SADS-CoV in bat specimens collected from 2013 to 2016 in Guangdong Province. The new virus appeared in 71 of 596 specimens (11.9 percent).
The researchers also tested 35 farm workers who had close contact with sick pigs, none of whom tested positive for SADS-CoV.
Currently six coronaviruses are known to cause disease in people, but so far only two of them — SARS-CoV and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus — have caused large outbreaks of fatal illness in people.
And from EcoHealth Alliance:
EcoHealth Alliance Announces Discovery of New Bat-Origin Virus Impacting Pig Farms in Southern China
NEW YORK – April 4, 2018 – EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of animal, environmental, and human health on a global scale, announced that–in collaboration with local partners–it has discovered a novel coronavirus in China called Swine Acute Diarrhea Syndrome (SADS-CoV). The virus has, so far, has caused the deaths of 24,693 piglets between 2016 and 2017 on several farms in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where the human pandemic SARS emerged in 2002.
Published today by the journal Nature, the virus’ discovery solves the mystery of mass pig die-offs on four farms in Guangdong Province. Particularly harmful to newborn piglets, SADS-CoV causes severe and acute diarrhea, acute vomiting, and eventually death due to rapid weight loss. It has a fatality rate as high as 90 percent for piglets five days or younger, but that drops in older pigs.
The very good news here is – for now, anyway – there is no indication that this recently discovered virus can infect humans.
While the addition of yet another porcine diarrhea coronavirus (see SECD: Another Emerging Coronavirus Threat) may seem mostly a concern for pig farmers and the pork industry, coronaviruses – having a large RNA genome – tend to evolve over time (see slide below).
Already well adapted to pigs – who share a high degree of physiology with humans (if that bothers you, think how the pig feels) – it is not much of a stretch to see one of these viruses someday becoming a zoonotic threat.
In recent years we’ve seen a series of reports on bat viruses that pose potential zoonotic threats – making this an excellent time to be a Chiropterist.
Some recent blogs include:
Emerg. Microbes & Infect.: Novel Coronaviruses In Least Horseshoe Bats In Southwestern China
PNAS: SARS-like WIV1-CoV Poised For Human Emergence
Sci Rpts: Avian & Human Influenza Compatible Receptor Cells In Little Brown Bats
Turkey hosts Iran, Russia to discuss Syria’s future #TraitorTrump nowhere in sight – US gives leadership to Boss Putin
Iran’s president traveled to Ankara for the second trilateral summit on Syria with Turkish and Russian counterparts.
Thursday Open Thread | Dr Martin Luther King explains why Black Americans face more obstacles than white European immigrants
Wow, I’ve seen/heard a lot of MLK footage but this is the first time I’ve seen this interview. How profound this is. pic.twitter.com/Lm8SR2z3bT
— Justinfication (@Justinfication) April 4, 2018
Dr King warns of 3 evils plaguing America……..
Racism
Exploitation of Povery
Militarism
MLK said young black people were calling for revolution of values in US, because some of the values of white, middle-class society needed to be reviewed and changed, with a restructuring of values architecture.
See full interview with @NBCNews from 1967: https://t.co/ycN2ykMPqh pic.twitter.com/WFzsOc3mNq
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 4, 2018



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