Rimjin-gang -Reports from Inside North Korea

Rimjin-gang – Report, Column and Survey – ASIAPRESS.

North Koreans are able to get news to the outside via Rimjin Gang, which is compiled by Asia Press.   What’s up now is a series of stories about the starvation.  Now is the time that food stores from the fall  are running out, (bori-kage) and people are the most malnourished.  It’s the worst time of year until May, when early crops are harvested.

There’s a  spate of stories about cannibalism in North Korea.  Reportedly, some people are cooking and eating their own children.  Devolution is a bit further along in that starving country, than here in the U.S. where food is plentiful, but people have other uses for the tissue of their offspring.

Trash Science News Headline Misleads News Skimmers

Doctors Claim HIV-Positive Man Cured by Stem Cell Transplant – FoxNews.com.

1) This is the case of an HIV infected person with leukemia getting a BONE MARROW transplant, (actually two of them).

2) The headline says “stem cells”, without specifying that this is old technology using adult bone marrow cells from a compatible donor.

3) The donor cells in this case lacked  expression of the receptor on CD4  T  cells  to which the HIV virus attaches.

4) The recipient does not have the AIDs  symptoms of HIV anymore, and will not have to take antiretroviral drugs.  He will have to take immunosuppressive drugs after the transplant to prevent  or treat graft vs host disease.   The length of need for these drugs varies.

5) The virus can still potentially be transmitted by a patient to another person  after that form of treatment.

More  detail on this case.