HIV and TB emerge as African epidemic

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Cape Town, South Africa, is among the worst cities in the region affected by a epidemic of HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
The BBC in Cape Town reported that children in the city’s slums are 100 times more likely to contract TB than elsewhere in the world.

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Direct and indirect cellular effects of aspartame on the brain.

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Many informed experts, not controlled by vested interests, now publish detailed studies this year on the toxicity of aspartame, due to its components: methanol, aspartic acid, phenylalanine. The body always quickly converts methanol into formaldehyde.

Almost none of these mainstream studies are mentioned in mass print and broadcast media.

Here is their abstract. You can access the article for $ 30:
www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/1602866a.html;jsessionid=DA855B80C66B37279C6D981F78BC3571
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/1602866a

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South Asian Scots have increased risk of heart attacks

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Scots of South Asian descent are significantly more likely to suffer a heart attack than the rest of the Scottish population, according to a report published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health. The good news is that they are also more likely to survive this traumatic event than their non-Asian countrymen.

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Salamander trumps toad as Mr Universe

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Hop away toads, you've lost your title as the world's strongest animal. That honour now passes to the giant palm salamander Bolitoglossa dofleini, whose tongue explodes outward with more instantaneous power than any other known vertebrate muscle. At 18,000 watts of power per kilogram of muscle, the salamander, from the forest floors of Central America, is nearly twice as strong as the previous champ, the Colorado river toad Bufo alvarius

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Fake fruits could help restore rainforest

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Bats can be lured into large areas of destroyed rainforest with fake fruits, researchers have found. This, they say, could be the key to restoring patchy parts of the landscape.

South American leaf-nosed bats of the family Phyllostomidae defaecate the seeds of the fruits they have eaten as they fly. This process, known as 'seed rain', aids plant dispersal throughout the rainforest.

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