Free Sudanese woman have been re-arrested

Sudanese authorities re-arrested a Sudanese woman on Tuesday hours.

After she was freed from death row, and detained her and her family as they tried to board a plane in Khartoum, a security source and her lawyer said.
Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, sentenced to death last month for converting to Christianity from Islam, was released on Monday after what the government said was unprecedented international pressure.

The security official said he did know the reason for the re-arrest. One of Ibrahim's lawyers said she was being held at a security building outside the airport with her husband and two children.
Ibrahim was freed by an appeal court on Monday which cancelled her death sentence.
She was then sent to a secret location for her protection after her family reported receiving threats. Her release was welcomed by human rights groups and Western governments that had voiced outrage at the death sentence.

UK to launch it new largest aircraft carries

The new UK largest warship ever,  constructed for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy will be officially named in a special ceremony on July 4. Queen Elizabeth II will be on hand to christen the aircraft carrier, which will be named in her honor, according to the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence.

HMS Queen Elizabeth ushers in a new class of aircraft carrier for the Royal Navy, according to the Ministry of Defence.  The carriers will be versatile enough to be used across the full spectrum of military activity from war fighting to providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief, defense officials said in a statement. The new Queen Elizabeth-class (QE-class) warships will each weigh 71,650 tons and will be capable of deploying the next-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II jets, which are designed to take off from short runways and land vertically.  the British Ministry of Defence has committed to purchasing 138 F-35 jets, according to Lockheed Martin Corp., the plane's lead contractor. This summer, the stealth F-35s will be showcased at two separate air shows in the U.K.
The Royal International Air Tattoo in Gloucestershire and the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire. Assembly of the HMS Queen Elizabeth started about three years ago at Rosyth, a major dockyard about half an hour's drive north from Edinburgh, Scotland. Construction of the next QE-class ship, the Prince of Wales, is expected to begin at Rosyth later this year.  

Combined with the Lightning II aircraft, the QE class will bolster the Royal Navy’s ability to project power across the world and there is a lot of excitement about the ship nearing completion after years of hard work by thousands of highly skilled workers,   U.K. defence secretary Philip Hammond said in a statement. HMS Queen Elizabeth will be ready for military service in 2017, reported the Independent. Once deployed, the ship will carry 1,600 people, 40 jets, helicopters and with a range.

Ebola fever is now out of control it's killing more people

An outbreak of the terrifying Ebola virus emerged in the West African nation of Guinea in February and has been spreading ever since, infecting people in Sierra Leonne DR congo and Liberia as well. 

It is now the biggest and deadliest outbreak of Ebola since the virus was identified in 1976. The disease's spread seemed to slow down for a while, but has picked up in recent weeks. An estimated 528 people have been infected, and 337 have died in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. While it's likely that many cases go uncounted, the Associated Press notes that previously, the largest reported death toll was in the Congo in 1976, when 280 people died. (The most widespread outbreak infected 425 people in Uganda in 2000, killing 224.) "The epidemic is now in a second wave.

Bart Janssens, the director of operations for Doctors Without Borders told the Associated Press. "It is totally out of control." The World Health Organization has planned a meeting between the three countries affected by this latest outbreak for June 23. 

There needs to be a real political commitment that this is a very big emergency," Janssens added. "Otherwise, it will continue to spread, and for sure it will spread to more countries." This outbreak is unique because it has struck densely populated areas like Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, and Conakry, the capital city of Guinea. Ebola usually emerges in sparsely populated rural regions, where fewer people pass through.  Robert Garry, a microbiology professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine, warned that the outbreak so far is just "the tip of the iceberg.

Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses ever known, with the most fatal strains killing up to 90% of people infected. The current strain is killing about 60% of people infected, Ebola begins as fever, weakness, muscle pain, headache, and sore throat, but soon progresses to vomiting, diarrhea, rash, and impaired organ function.

 A large proportion of those infected also bleed profusely, both internally and externally. It's considered highly contagious, though it isn't transmitted through the air — instead it's spread by bodily fluids like blood and saliva which can be very hard to avoid when someone is bleeding heavily from every orifice. Ebola first emerged in humans in 1976, and there have been more than 18 outbreaks since then. There is currently no vaccine and no cure.

Bananas elevate hope for stopping HIV & microbial spread

People's with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) may heaved a sigh of relief following the result of new study, suggesting that bananas may over take anti-retroviral drugs in stopping HIV/AIDS spread. The new United States study which was published in the journal of biological chemistry concluded that banana lectins, a natural chemical found in banana has the ability to stop the transmission and prevention of HIV.
Also in another development, Nigerian researchers at the University of Lagos have shown that potency of unripe banana, lemon grass and turmeric against pathogens that cause typhoid fever, pneumonia, skin afflictions and diarrhoea.
The study titled, "A lectin isolated from banana is a potent inhibitor of HIV replication"   was conducted by Michael D. Swanson, Harry C. Winter, Irwin J. Goldstein and David M. Markovitz from the Department of Internal medicine, Division of infectious Diseases, Programme in Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Biology Programme and Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical centre, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

This new research found Ban Lec, "a jacalin-related pectin isolated from the fruit of bananas, a potential component for an antiviral microbicide that could be used to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV-1. Ban Lec is an effective anti HIV pectin and is similar potency to T-20 and maraviroc,  two anti-HIV drugs currently in clinical use."     In the study by Nigerian researchers, dried banana pulp has also shown promise as natural agents for lowering blood cholesterol levels and the risk of heart diseases.
Also Nigerian researchers have successfully used dried banana pulp to treat Hypercholesterolaemia in animal models.

Hypercholesterolaemia is a condition in which levels of cholesterol in the blood are higher than normal. The researchers claim this Hypercholesterolaemia effect ( lowering of blood cholesterol levels) can be  replicated in human. Banana fruits have been reported to be preventing anaemia (lack of blood) by stimulating the production of haemoglobin in the blood.   Haemoglobin is the iron containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of vertebrates and the tissues of some invertebrates. Several studies have shown that the medicinal parts of banana used are the fruits mainly as well as peels, leaves and the juice. Banana function in regulating blood pressure has been linked with the high content of potassium. Banana is known to help Slovenia the problem of constipation without necessary resort to laxatives.

Bananas have been known to cure heart burns, stress, strokes,  ulcers and many other ailments. The root of banana is anthelmintic (worm expeller by stunning or killing them). The fruit has been used as part of anti-ulcer diet in combination with pineapples, blueberries, cloves, ginger and cinnamon. Also anti-fungal and antibiotic chemical substances are found in the peel and pulp of fully ripe banana. The peel in combination of other substances made into a liniment helps to reduce acute arthritis pain and aches.                    The lead author of the United State study, Michael D. Swanson said, "the problem with some HIV drugs is that virus can mutate and become resistant, but that's much harder to do in the presence of lectins. Can  bind to the sugars found on different spots of the HIV-1 envelope, and presumably it will take multiple mutations for the virus to get around them." The authors say even modest success could save millions of lives.

Other researchers had estimated that 20 percent coverage with a microbicide that is only 60 percent effective against HIV  may prevent up to 2.5 million HIV infections in three years.            Ban Lec  is a jacalin-related pectin isolated from the fruit of bananas. This lectin binds to high mannose carbohydrate structures, including those found on viruses containing glycosylated envelope proteins such as HIV-1.  There fore, we hypothesized that Ban Lec might inhibit HIV-1 through binding of the glycosylated  HIV-1  envelope proteins, gp120. We determined that Ban Lec inhibits primary and laboratory-adapted HIV-1 isolates of different tropism and subtypes. Ban Lec possesses potent and HIV activity, with IC… Valves in the low nanomolar to pecomolar range. "  The researchers, further state that Ban Lec as indicated by temperature sensitive viral entry studies and by the decrease levels of the strong-stop product of early reverse transcription seen in the presence of Ban Lec. Thus, our data indicate that Ban Lec inhibits HIV-1 infection by binding to the glycosylated viral envelope and blocking cellular entry. The relative anti-HIV activity of Ban Lec compared favourably to other anti-HIV lectins, such as snowdrop lectin and griffithein, and to T-20 and maraviroc.
Ban Lec is a potential component for an anti-viral microbicide that could be used to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV-1. Researchers say treatment using Ban Lec could be cheaper to create than current anti-retroviral medications, which use synthetically produced components. Also, Ban Lec may provide a Large range of protection for many people particularly in developing countries where poverty is abject and the women have little or no say in sexual relationships between spouses.

Meanwhile, Nigerian researchers at the University of Lagos have shown the potency of unripe bananas, lemon grass and turmeric against pathogens.   The formulations were in the powder form as used locally.

The study showed the antimicrobial activity of these plants was examined using different solvents and efficacy was compared. The solvents were ethanol (70 per cent, v/v) and water. The clinical isolated (pathogens) on which the antimicrobial activity in the study was carried out include aerobic facultative bacteria such as  Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella paratyphi,  Shigella flexneri,  Escherichia coli ATCC 25922,  Ecoli,  Klebsiella pneumoniae,  Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonae auriginosa.    According to the researchers, the results obtained from the test analysis carried out reveal that unripe bananas, lemon grass and turmeric plant have antimicrobial activity and therefore are medicinal plants. In this study, it was observed that the potency of unripe bananas, lemon grass and turmeric plant was enhanced by the type of solvent used, indicating that some of the active materials in The medicinal plants dissolve well in ethanol than in water.
The various studies in the United State and Nigeria lend credence to the medicinal importance of bananas in therapies for HIV and other microbial infections.

        
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