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23.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/558833517538784/posts/3360323640723077/

23.01.2022 One of PANDIS research arm is to study the potential involvement of cyanotoxins in human diseases including motor neuron disease and Alzheimer's disease https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54234396

19.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2745317839048549&id=1401183736795306

11.01.2022 Big news. Congratulations Prof Gilles Guillemin, Dr Vanessa Tan, and their Cyanobacteria water contamination research team - their breakthrough research linking harmful blue/green algae blooms to Motor Neurne Disease (MND - known as ALS in the USA) was the reason President Donald J. Trump just announced $6 million in funding to make USA waterways clean. In Australia, Helen Dalton MP is asking for bipartisan support of same to NSW Health and other states and territories. You can read her post below. If you want to join or help fund Prof Guillemin and Dr Tan's PANDIS water contamination - Cyanobacteria working group or the MND working group, please send us a private message. Fight MND MND Association The Deb Bailey Foundation for Motor Neurone Disease Research; ALS Foundation

11.01.2022 https://science.sciencemag.org//2020/09/23/science.abe2813

01.01.2022 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5130976/ Lustgarten MS. Classifying Aging As a Disease: The Role of Microbes. Front Genet. 2016;7:212. Published 2016 Dec 1. doi:10.3389/fgene.2016.00212 Recent publications have proposed that aging should be classified as a disease (Bulterijs et al., 2015;... Z havoronkov and Bhullar, 2015; Zhavoronkov and Moskalev, 2016). The goal of this manuscript is not to dispute these claims, but rather to suggest that when classifying aging as a disease, it is important to include the contribution of microbes. As recently as ~115 years ago, more than half of all deaths were caused by infectious diseases, including pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, gastrointestinal infections, and diphtheria (Jones et al., 2012). Since then, the establishment of public health departments that focused on improved sanitation and hygiene, and the introduction of antibiotics and vaccines allowed for a dramatic decrease in infectious disease-related mortality (Report, 1999). In 2010, the death rate for infectious diseases was reduced to 3% (Jones et al., 2012). Simultaneously, as infectious disease-related mortality rates have decreased, global lifespan has increased from ~30 to ~70 years (Riley, 2005). Because death rates due to infectious diseases have been reduced to very low levels, we've forgotten about the adverse effects of microbes on our existence. The fact is, we live in a microbial world. Although there are currently ~7 billion people, in contrast, the total number of prokaryotes and viruses have been estimated at 1030 and 1031, respectively (Whitman et al., 1998; Duerkop et al., 2014). Even without including other microbes (e.g., fungi, protozoa), humans are outnumbered by more than 1021 to 1! All of these microorganisms aren't detrimental to human health, but more than 1400 microbial species have been shown to be pathogenic (Taylor et al., 2001). Even at a young chronological age, microbes find their way into the blood and tissues. Circulating microbial DNA is found in young, healthy adults (average age, BMI: 21 years < 25 kg/m2) (Païsse et al., 2016). Interestingly, levels of circulating bacterial DNA were not homogeneous: some subjects had 3-fold or more circulating bacterial DNA when compared with others. Moreover, various bacterial species are found in skeletal muscle, heart, liver, adipose tissue, and in the brains of young mice (Lluch et al., 2015).