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"Miguel Ángel Luna Munguía (17 December 1969 – 3 June 2015) was a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party and Party of the Democratic Revolution. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing the 32nd district of the State of Mexico. Life Luna's political career took place entirely within Valle de Chalco Solidaridad. He graduated from the UNAM with a law degree in 1993 and was a member of the PRI until 2003, even serving as the municipal party president between 2002 and 2003. In 2003, he flipped to the PRD, and in that same year, he began a three-year term as municipal president. In 2006, the PRD considered running Miguel as its candidate for federal deputy but ultimately bypassed him in favor of his sister, Alma Lilia Luna Munguía, who eventually won the seat. In 2009, after the PRD briefly considered him as a candidate to return to the municipal presidency, he returned to the PRI in time to be selected as its candidate for federal deputy to the 32nd district. This time, the PRI triumphed, sending him to San Lázaro. He was a secretary on the Citizen Participation Commission and also sat on those for the Federal District, and after November 2010, Government. In 2010, he also graduated with a diploma in administrative law from the UNAM. In 2015, Miguel Ángel returned to the PRD in order to become its candidate for federal deputy from the 32nd district in Chalco; he would face Alma, who ran as the PRI candidate. On 2 June 2015, just five days before the election, Miguel Ángel was shot and killed in his campaign office in Valle de Chalco Solidaridad, just meters from the cathedral where his funeral mass would be held two days later; in the attack, the PRD's candidate for municipal president of Chalco was also hurt. Later in the month, the Attorney General of the State of Mexico alleged that the murderer had been paid to kill Miguel Ángel. References Category:1969 births Category:2015 deaths Category:Politicians from the State of Mexico Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Category:Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Category:Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians Category:21st-century Mexican politicians "
"Ichnotropis grandiceps is a species of African lizards in the family Lacertidae. They are commonly called Caprivi rough-scaled lizards as they are largely found in southwestern Africa on the border of the Caprivi Strip. The cape rough-scaled lizards are terrestrial and found in the range of open woodland and mesic savanna. The caprivi rough-scaled lizards are medium in size and distributed in parts of Namibia and Botswana. This species is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List for endangered species as they are rare and has not been seen or collected since 1998. Data about the population or specimens collected are needed for the IUCN to obtain more information about the unknown threats that may be impacting them. Description I. grandiceps are medium-sized lizards with slender bodies, long tails, and well developed legs. They are very similar to the type species Ichnotropis capensis, except I. grandiceps have larger heads. These lizards are no more than 70 mm in snout to vent length (SVL). Identification of Ichnotropis includes the following: * Cylindrical tail without lateral fringe * Toes without serrated or fringed edge * Smooth or tubular lamellae under toes * Subocular scales bordering lip * No collar present * Keeled or overlapping dorsal scales * Head shields smooth or slightly rough The coloration of the adults consist of a uniform grey and yellowish brown backs with few scattered dark spots. A dark dorsolateral stripe that may be absent or faint, which runs from the head to the groin and breaks up into a line of lateral spots. The sides of the head and the belly are white. The juveniles have pale grey and brown backs with lateral stripes. Habitat I. grandiceps can be found in open woodland, lime soil, or white sandy areas in Southwestern Africa. There are records that report this species in Namibia, and Botswana. These lizards seek shelter in soft soiled burrows, under rocks and brush. Biology These lizards are insectivorous and feed on termites and other small insects. They are active hunters during the day. This species is rare and have not been collected in some time. =Taxonomy and evolution= Based on morphological evidence the South African genus Ichnotropis and the North American genus Psammodromus diverged from a common ancestor from the lineage of Lacerta lepida and Lacerta monticola during the Oligocene epoch (24 to 36 million years ago).Busack, Stephan & Maxson, Linda. (1986). "Molecular relationships among Iberian, Moroccan, and South African lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae)". Amphibia-Reptilia 8. pp. 383-392. References Category:Ichnotropis Category:Lizards of Africa Category:Reptiles of Botswana Category:Reptiles of Namibia Category:Reptiles described in 1967 Category:Taxa named by Donald George Broadley "
"Tom Jefferson is a British epidemiologist, based in Rome, Italy, who works for the Cochrane Collaboration. Jefferson is an author and editor of the Cochrane Collaboration's acute respiratory infections group, as well as part of four other Cochrane groups. He is also an advisor to the Italian National Agency for Regional Health Services. In 1999, Jefferson was one of the founding members of the Brighton Collaboration along with Harald Heijbel, Ulrich Heininger, and Elisabeth Loupi. He has worked on Cochrane reviews examining the effectiveness of the anti-viral oseltamivir and the influenza vaccine. Notable work In 2009, Jefferson was hired by the governments of Britain and Australia to update a systematic review of oseltamivir. Initially he had a great deal of trouble getting results of the original trials. Previous researchers had published trials without seeing the underlying data and it appeared that some of the published papers used ghost writers. As the company, Roche, that did the trials refused to provide data for independent analysis, their conclusions in 2009 were that benefits could not be shown. In 2011, Jefferson's team was provided 22,000 pages of data from the European Medicines Agency and Roche eventually provided 3,000 pages of data. In 2012, Jefferson was the lead author of another Cochrane review of this data which concluded that oseltamivir did not reduce the number of hospitalizations caused by influenza. Jefferson said that this review also found no evidence that oseltamivir stopped complications from the disease. His views about the effectiveness of influenza vaccines and his outspokenness about them are also controversial; at a 2007 meeting on pandemic preparedness he was shunned by other vaccine researchers and ate alone. Reviews led by Jefferson have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to show that influenza vaccines reduce mortality or infection rates. He has said that the studies claiming large reductions in mortality rates as a result of the influenza vaccine are "rubbish", and that "influenza vaccines are about marketing and not science". He has called repeatedly for placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials to prove the efficacy of flu vaccines, a position that most in the field hold as unethical. His views on flu vaccines are opposed by the medical establishment. On 5 July 2020, Jefferson claimed in an interview with The Telegraph that the COVID-19 coronavirus may not have originated in China.https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/the-coronavirus-may-not-have- originated-in-china-says-oxford-professor/ His theory was that a virus may simply lie dormant for years before suddenly emerging. As an example of this possibility, he pointed to the isolation of Western Samoa, which lost 22% of its population to Spanish flu in 1918, and claimed the islands had no contact with the outside world. However, it is well documented that Spanish flu arrived on board the SS Talune on 7 November, 1918, when six infected passengers from New Zealand were allowed ashore.https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/influenza-pandemic-hits- samoahttps://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1918-influenza-pandemic/samoa Publications References Category:British epidemiologists Category:20th-century births Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Cochrane Collaboration people "