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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: “The president’s vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care. We’re still not on a clear path to a full recovery.”<br><br>--A source familiar with the President&#39;s health, to pool reporters</p>&mdash; Sara Cook (@saraecook) <a href="">October 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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A Common Plant Virus Is an Unlikely Ally in the War on Cancer



Researchers have seen promising results by injecting dog and mouse tumors with the cowpea mosaic virus.
Now they’re aiming for a human trial.​


JACK HOOPES SPENDS a lot of time with dying dogs. A veterinary radiation specialist at Dartmouth College, Hoopes has spent his decades-long career treating canine cancers with the latest experimental therapies as a pathway for developing human treatments. Recently, many of Hoopes’ furry patients have come to him with a relatively common oral cancer that will almost certainly kill them within a few months if left untreated. Even if the cancer goes into remission after radiation treatment, there’s a very high chance it will soon reemerge.​
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For Hoopes, it’s a grim prognosis that’s all too familiar. But these pups are in luck. They’re patients in an experimental study exploring the efficacy of a new cancer treatment derived from a common plant virus. After receiving the viral therapy, several of the dogs had their tumors disappear entirely and lived into old age without recurring cancer. Given that around 85 percent of dogs with oral cancer will develop a new tumor within a year of radiation therapy, the results were striking. The treatment, Hoopes felt, had the potential to be a breakthrough that could save lives, both human and canine. “If a treatment works in dog cancer, it has a very good chance of working, at some level, in human patients,” says Hoopes.​
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The new cancer therapy is based on the cowpea mosaic virus, or CPMV, a pathogen that takes its name from the mottled pattern it creates on the leaves of infected cowpea plants, which are perhaps best known as the source of black-eyed peas. The virus doesn’t replicate in mammals like it does in plants, but as the researchers behind the therapy discovered, it still triggers an immune response that could be the key to more effective treatments for a wide variety of cancers.​
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The idea is to use the virus to overcome one of the gnarliest problems in oncology: A doctor’s best ally, their patient’s own immune system, doesn’t always recognize a cancerous cell when it sees one. It’s not the body’s fault; cancer cells have properties that trick the immune system into thinking nothing is wrong. Oncologists have puzzled over this for nearly a century, and it's only in the past decade that researchers have really started to get a grip on cancer’s immunosuppressive properties. Immunotherapy, which has emerged as one of the most promising types of cancer treatment, is all about developing techniques to help the body’s immune system recognize cancerous cells so it can fight back. It’s the medical equivalent of putting a big flashing neon sign on the tumor that reads “ATTACK HERE.” And that’s where the cowpea mosaic virus could help.​
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While other viruses could theoretically be used as immune system bait, CPMV has proven far more effective at triggering a response than any other pathogens the researchers have tried so far. They’re still not sure what makes this particular virus so uniquely effective, but the important thing is that it works. “It’s worked better than radiation by itself, which is a huge positive for us,” says Hoopes. “The immune system is more powerful than we thought.”​


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On Tuesday evening, senior administration officials confirmed that Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s top speechwriter and a policy adviser, had tested positive for the coronavirus, joining a growing list of Mr. Trump’s close aides who have the virus.

“Over the last five days I have been working remotely and self-isolating, testing negative every day through yesterday,” Mr. Miller said in a statement. “Today, I tested positive for Covid-19 and am in quarantine.”

Mr. Miller is married to Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence’s communications director. A senior administration official said Ms. Miller, who contracted the virus this spring and returned to work in May, was tested Tuesday morning and was negative for any new infection.
 
Top U.S. military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are quarantining after being exposed to the virus

Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with several of the Pentagon’s most senior uniformed leaders, are quarantining after being exposed to the coronavirus, a Defense Department official said on Tuesday.

The official said almost the entirety of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including Gen. James C. McConville, the Army chief of staff, are quarantining after Adm. Charles Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard, tested positive for coronavirus.

“We are aware that Vice Commandant Ray has tested positive for Covid-19 and that he was at the Pentagon last week for meetings with other senior military leaders,” Jonathan Hoffman, the Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement released by his office.
 
Not sure if this has been covered, but it is really disgusting behaviour.
The Federal Government should really be stepping in (hard and strong), as it happen back on the 6th of this month, but only came to light the last few days.

Avoid Qatar (Doha) and QR at all costs.

Imagine flying to Europe via Doha and your wife/girlfriend/mum/partner getting sexually assaulted by Qatar airport ground staff.

Screw that.

Complete animals!!!

Why the Federal Government isn't using Qantas or Virgin for repatriate flights during this Covid crisis is beyond me.




Qatar airport incident in which women were invasively searched reported to Australian Federal Police​


An Australian woman strip-searched by authorities at a Qatari airport after a premature baby was found in a bathroom says she is considering legal action over the "terrifying" experience.​
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Two passengers from QR908 both told the ABC they had no idea what was happening to them when all women on the plane were asked to get off after a three-hour delay on October 2.​
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The two women wanted to remain anonymous and did not know each other before boarding the flight to Sydney.​
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It had been due to leave Hamad International Airport (HIA) at 8:30pm local time but was delayed for three hours after a premature baby was found in a bathroom at the terminal — a detail confused passengers said was not communicated to them.​
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One of the women said all adult females were removed from the plane by authorities and taken to two ambulances waiting outside the airport.​
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"No-one spoke English or told us what was happening. It was terrifying," she said.​
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"There were 13 of us and we were all made to leave.​
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"A mother near me had left her sleeping children on the plane.​
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"There was an elderly woman who was vision impaired and she had to go too. I'm pretty sure she was searched."​
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She said while she respected Qatar's laws and culture, she was considering legal action.​
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"If the other 12 women came forward with a class action, I would definitely be part of that," she said.​
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Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the "grossly disturbing, offensive, concerning set of events" had been referred to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).​
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In a statement, HIA confirmed the infant was "safe" and being cared for in Qatar, and that medical professionals "expressed concern to officials about the health and welfare of a mother who had just given birth and requested she be located prior to departing".​
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The other female passenger who spoke to the ABC said she was with a group of about six women, who began panicking when they realised they were being taken outside the airport.​
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"When I got in there, and there was a lady with a mask on and then the authorities closed the ambulance behind me and locked it," she said.​
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"They never explained anything.​
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"She told me to pull my pants down and that I needed to examine my vagina.​
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"I said 'I'm not doing that' and she did not explain anything to me. She just kept saying, 'we need to see it we need to see it'."​
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The woman said she tried to get out of the ambulance and the authorities on the other side opened the door.​
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"I jumped out and then ran over to the other girls. There was nowhere for me to run," she said.​
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The woman said she took her clothes off and was inspected, and touched, by the female nurse.​
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"I was panicking. Everyone had gone white and was shaking," she said.​
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"I was very scared at that point, I didn't know what the possibilities were."​
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DB008 said:
The Federal Government should really be stepping in (hard and strong), as it happen back on the 6th of this month, but only came to light the last few days.
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My thought is that Australia should seek the support of other relevant countries rather than going it alone on this one given that the very nature of international travel involves people flying between countries.

I'd be surprised if the UK or the EU considered the incident to be in any way acceptable. :2twocents
 
Uplifting. Good story IMV


New Zealand couple shuns developers to give 900 hectares of land to nation
Dick and Jillian Jardine said it was ‘the right thing’ to hand beautiful plot in Remarkables to national trust for conservation

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The family who own the Remarkables station in New Zealand have gifted it to the nation, saying they want to see it protected and loved. Photograph: Supplied/ QEII Trust

Eleanor Ainge Roy in Queenstown

@EleanorAingeRoy
Tue 24 Nov 2020 23.32 EST
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A New Zealand farming family has gifted 900 hectares of pristine land by the edge of Lake Wakatipu to the crown, saying it is “the right thing to do”.
The stretch of land at the foot of the Remarkables range will become open to everyone in 2022, after being handed over to the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust for “the benefit and enjoyment of all New Zealanders”.

Remarkables station owners Dick and Jillian Jardine have owned and worked the land for 98 years, and want to see it protected and loved for another century.
www.theguardian.com

New Zealand couple shuns developers to give 900 hectares of land to nation

Dick and Jillian Jardine said it was ‘the right thing’ to hand beautiful plot in Remarkables to national trust for conservation
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 

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