another murdered poet?

[from Adeline Bash @ the santiago times, 11 July 2011]

Judge orders formal investigation into Neruda’s death

New insight into case questions death record that state poet died of prostate cancer.

The circumstances surrounding the death of Chile’s legendary poet Pablo Neruda have caused rumors and speculations for years.

photo by Menno Hordijk

The date, for example, September 23, 1973 — only 12 days after Augusto Pinochet’s military coup and the death of then President Salvador Allende — sparked legends that Neruda, a leader of the communist and close friend of Allende, died of a broken heart.

Up until recently, however, most Chileans — including the Neruda family — consented with death records stating that the writer died on September 23, 1973 at the Santa María Clinic in Santiago of advanced prostate cancer.

But in light of new information on the case, investigators have reconsidered this position. Most recently, after pressure from the Chilean Communist Party, Marío Carroza, the judge leading the investigation, reopened the case last month.

Suspicion over Neruda’s death arose this year after Manuel Araya, Neruda’s personal assistant and chauffeur, claimed during an interview with Mexican newspaper Proceso that the writer did not die of cancer but was assassinated.

Araya’s claims have been backed by testimony from Mexican ambassador Gonzalo Martínez Corbala, who was with Neruda when he died.

Upon admission to the clinic, Corbala claims, Neruda was in a stable condition and was finalizing plans to flee to Mexico in the wake of coup. Corbala has not personally expressed suspicion over Neruda’s death, but has confirmed that later that day a clinic doctor injected Neruda with a “calming substance” and he went into cardiac arrest and died soon after.

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Jessica Stroup

The American Actress Jessica Stroup

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Full name : Jessica Leigh Stroup

Born on : 23 October 1986

Place of birth : Anderson, South Carolina, U.S.

Year Active : 2005-Present

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The one of the famous celebrities Jessica Stroup was bear October 23rd 1986, in Anderson, South Carolina, USA. At the age of 17, she established a scholarship to attend the University of Georgia, but turned it down to pursue acting. At only 17, she moved to Los Angeles and right away took acting classes and received both modeling and acting offers. Since then, Jessica has starred in more than a few hit horror movies including Prom Night (2008/I) and The Hills Have Eyes II (2007), and is book a lead role in the brand new spin-off "90210" (2008) as single of the lead characters, "Erin Silver". In her spare time, Jessica enjoys hanging out among friends and family, watching movies, playing volleyball and listening to music.

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Columbus Bring Syphilis to Europe?

Said that in the 18th century, the philosopher Voltaire called the discoverer of the Americas, Christopher Columbus, as carriers of syphilis to Europe in the 15th century. Now, a study to prove the same thing.

Recorded syphilis venereal disease was first discovered among the French mercenaries who arrived in Naples, Italy, in 1495. From Naples, syphilis then expand to the rest of Europe.

At the end of the 15th century, syphilis was commonly known as the 'Spanish disease' in Scotland, Belgium, and Portugal. While Italy, Germany and Britain called it a "disease of Naples'.

Well, two years before the disease was recorded in Naples that is 1493, Columbus had just returned from his adventure to the New World, America.
Historians believe that the mercenary army that was the crew of Columbus who contracted the disease from Native American women.

But the evidence is very common. In fact, many experts argue, syphilis originated in Europe, then brought to America, mutate and then brought back to Europe.

That's based on phylogenetic evidence, a science that examines the evolutionary chain between organisms. A team led by Kristin Harper of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, who did it. The team compared the different types of families of bacteria called treponemes that cause syphilis and related diseases 3 of 26 places around the world.
They found syphilis is the latest family member of treponeme. Syphilis is a close cousin of a tropical disease called yaws or yaws. Yaws is a more benign skin disease from syphilis and was transmitted through sex.

The hypothesis the researchers were, Columbus crew is infected with yaws, then the bacteria to travel deep into the cooler and drier in Europe and develop into syphilis.

"When this genetic data combined with extensive documentary evidence, the hypothesis of Columbus for syphilis is getting stronger," says the study, as quoted by AFP on Thursday (17/01/2008).

Or yaws yaws itself are also not native to America. Yaws from syphilis caused by Treponema pallidum that, which were not initially infected. Then the bacteria were brought to the New World and evolved so yaws.

After developing a disease that infects so, then the sailors were brought back to Europe. Treponema pallidum also raged into diseases such as syphilis are known now.