I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Researchers in Europe announced they have found a new strain of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in a woman from Cameroon.
The new virus, researchers say, appears to have originated in gorillas, unlike the other three subtypes of the virus which are believed to have evolved in chimpanzees, the BBC is reporting.
While the new strain is considered somewhat of a novelty, it could have serious implications, explains Professor Paul Sharp of the University of Edinburgh:
“The medical implication is that, because this virus is not very closely related to the other three HIV-1 groups, it is not detected by conventional tests. So the virus could be cryptically spreading in the population.”
Researchers believe the virus which is the forerunner of HIV is another virus called Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV). They believe this new, gorilla evolved strain was likely transmitted from chimps to gorillas.
This news comes as researchers announced that SIV was killing chimps in Africa, something they previously thought did not happen.
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