(If you want information on Artesunate(o), either a pill or injection, a derivative of the Sweet Wormwood Bush (Artesimia Annua) used as an assist medicine in the Guayaramerin Bolivia Amazon Malaria Research project along with Lariam malaria medicine go to the top of my homepage http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com . The particular wormwood bush extracted is thought to have origin in China where it has been used for malaria for two thousand years, and where it is used today as a pill or injection, and was used for many medicinal purposes in the old U.S. but has been forgotten about in the U.S. of today. The world famous Kallawaya medicine men of the Andes mountains in their society regard it as having been in South America from the time of the creation. Others believe the Spanish and Portuguese brought it over. It could have been brought over by the early Atlantis community looking for Tin mines and Tin in Bolivia that the Greek philosopher Plato writes of. It is now official in the Oruro state of Bolivia that the high inland sea volcano mountain at 11,000 feet altitude Pampa Aullagas in the Bolivia altiplano, surrounded by water part of the year, is the Atlantis that Plato writes about. It is a nature paradise with hot and cold running water from deep and a natural defense, a large lake Lake Poopo nearby with fish and rich deposits of tin needed for weaponry. The only other tin source was in Cornwall, England and constituted a monopoly. Tiwanaku is a later outcome of Atlantis on it's northern periphery and must be included as Atlantis also. Yet looking farther back Artisemia Annua could have been brought to South America earlier than Atlantis at a time reed boats had been perfected on Lake Titicaca and natives struck west on the Peru Current from Guayaquil, Ecuador to China and around the world. Artesimia Annua  grows wild and prolifically from Argentina to the U.S. and Canada. It saves lives. It has been used for many illnesses.)                                                                                                                                                          "I see things! Wonderful things! Marvelous things!"(Words by Howard Carter archaeologist working for Lord Carnarvon peering into the tomb of King Tut). But the tomb of King Tut is no comparison to 98.9 % still unexcavated ancient Tiwanaku ruins located in the Bolivia Altiplano at 13,300 feet altitude the purist air of any community in the world, it's beautiful stone cut with brass saws 400 B.C. transported scores of miles and the remainder of the stone plated with gold. This was the sight the Greek Plato from atop the passage hills saw.                                                                                                                         This is my principle supporting medical research page. For a point of information concerning the top photo above, on the left in the photo you are viewing the state of Rondonia in Brazil. Striking south east in Rondonia you come to the headwaters of the Rio Teodoro (Roosevelt River earlier called the River of Doubt because a Brazil government survey party led by Colonel Candido Rondon crossing it with a mission to the west noted it but knew nothing about it or where it went to). In Rio de Jainero preparing for a speaking tour of Argentina it is said the river was mentioned to former president Teddy Roosevelt as an Amazon river totally unexplored and the president changed his plans towards exploration of it. With the Roosevelt party went Colonel Candido Rondon. It took many months from putting into the river in south eastern Rondonia untill the party reached the main trunk of the Amazon through primitive tribes of indians. The president came near to death once on the exploration.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  For information on Colonel Percy Fawcett and some of his South American contributions over twenty years as a Bolivia border surveyor and Amazon  explorer go to http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id28.html .  For authentic Hebrew-Phoenician 1,000 B.C. maps of the entire 24,000 mile globe go to http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id2.html and for 1,000 B.C. Olmec maps of the entire globe go to http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id9.html . Both sites contain 1,000 B.C.authentic ancient maps of South America)                                                                                                                                                                                            (photos above) You will not find United States actress Sandra Bullock on the right side Mamore river community, Guayaramerin, Bolivia. Here for a short while to film a movie as Elisha Rothman social worker on the destruction of the rain forst and economic neglect of the rights of those not already economically advantaged she left to return home thirteen years ago. On the left side of the river is Guajara-mirim, Brazil. Some of the movie may also have been filmed in Brazil? Ironically the movie FIRE ON THE AMAZON she made has little to do directly with the page A FIRE ON THE AMAZON but instead the page relates to a legend of the Kayapo-Tukahame of the Brazil states of Para and Mato Grosso. But the title of my page is unquestionably influenced by the movie FIRE ON THE AMAZON starring Sandra Bullock and Craig Scheffer. You may want to visit my page on explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett who lost his life in the Mato Grosso upriver of the communities you are viewing to the north west Mato Grosso then going due east 250 miles to the north east Mato Grosso where are located a short distance north the ancient King Solomon's Mines. Ironically his wife Nina Fawcett at home believed his explorations might lead him to the Brazil state of Rondonia which is the Brazil state you are looking at on the left side of the river. This is the information he gave earlier and immediately prior to beginning the expedition from central Mato Grosso Posto Simoes Lopes north of the city of Cuiaba (Cuyaba).  And had it been the case the expedition would probably have exited here at Guajara-mirim - Guaharamerin. Go to the Colonel Percy H. Fawcett page at   http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id28.html. There is yet much to be found in primative areas of Amazonas on medicine. Some of these people the Europeans discovered lived to the age of 130 and older.                                                                                                                                                     The Atlantis of Plato has now been located beyond scientific reasonable doubt using the most advanced scientific technologies available including satellite imaging technology. Plato reported striking out westerly in the Atlantic Ocean so the Americas were evaluated for the many points or features Plato described about Atlantis. The results pinpointed a mineral Tin rich area which was a community settled volcano island more than 11,000 feet in altitude located in an immense dry sea bed in the remote southern Bolivia Altiplano bordering Chili, the dry sea bed surrounded on the west by 20,000 foot mountains of Chile, some mountains volcanic and on the east by 20,000 foot mountains of Bolivia some mountains volcanic. As to the volcano island located in the dry sea bed which came to light as the location of Atlantis that volcano rises about 1,800 feet above the dry sea bed, the dry sea bed filled with water part of the year and dry the other part.                                                                              Dubious at first it turns out to be "paradise". And logical. It is the only Tin wealthy area in the world, outside of Cornwall England which possessed in ancient time a monopoly on Tin at high prices, tin necessary for the production of hard metal tools, household wares and weapons. As a paradise, at the base of the island volcano mountain are abundant bubbling cold springs and abundant bubbling hot springs that never cease to provide. Drought is no problem for obtaining pure drinking water or water for crops. Investigation of the top of the mountain disclosed that by listening through holes in the rock water can be heard bubbling and running as Plato described. Game is abundant in the mountains to the east and west and Lake Poopo not many miles to the west abundant in fish.                                                                                     A portion of the volcano island is partially sunken. And earthquakes have caused canals to form around the island as a result of the shaking causing the earth to cave into volcano chambers of canal like demensions. These canals lead from the volcano island nearly the entire distance to Lake Poopo the only large body of water in the dry sea bed. Making it possible for the remainder of the canal to be dug out by manpower. Reaching Lake Poopo from the volcano island provides a water route north up the Desaguadero River, which feeds Lake Poopo, to it's source Lake Titicaca. And near the Lake Titicaca outlet which creates the Desaguardero river the Desaguadero river parallels Tiwanaku a short number of miles distance to the east. Plato in his writings considered Tiwanaku a part of Atlantis and described it precisely.                                                                           Following the Desaguadero river discharge into Lake Poopo there is no outlet for the river most years as the water evaporates before reaching the outlet and years when water does run out of Lake Poopo these exceptional years have created a great salt lake flat beyond Lake Poopo. Located on the the volcano island and running around it 360 degrees is a natural wall of round rocks worn round by waves breaking on the shore line of a large inland sea that existed more than 20,000 years ago and causing the rocks also located on the shore to roll back and forth sanding them into form. The name of the community located on this volcano island is no longer Atlantis but is Pampa Aullagas. Plato to describe all of this had to have actually made the voyage with Phoenicians also out of Greece.                                                                                   In his writings Plato describes the ocean voyage westerly to the opposite continent China via striking west at the Peru Current at Ecuador stopping off before Ecuador on the south west coast of South America to trade at Atlantis. What is notable is the strike west to China at Ecuador. Six hundred years before Plato the Phoenicians were sailing a westerly around the 24,000 world trade route but keeping close to shores as they show in their ancient maps of the 24,000 mile world http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id2.html The time of Plato denotes an important improvement in level of sailing skill.                                                                                    The writer is going to be at Pampa Aullagas later 2006. The writer is not an archaeologist. Who has made the great contribution to the discovery of Atlantis is the British writer and Atlantis explorer James Allen. He will go down in the world history books as credited with it. Others have contributed significantly also.                                                                                      (For the main medical research content of FIRE ON THE AMAZON roll down the page to the larger black print)                                                                                                                                                This is the most beautiful spot in the world. Above is a photo I took the summer of 2004 deep in the Amazon basin crossing the Mamore river from Guajara-mirim, Brazil to Guayaramerin, Bolivia the twin port community of Guajara-mirim, Brazil. Upriver a short distance can be seen small Suarez island. And upriver not a great many miles the Guapore river, an earth end, which on the south of Bolivia forms the boundary between Brazil and Bolivia, and which flows out of the Bolivia-Brazil "Lost World" of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle still totally roadless and primative, and empties into the Mamore. Bolivia by law requires a guide to enter that area. The area where this photo is taken is a free trade zone area and no visa is required if you want to cross from Bolivia into Brazil and stay local. Some areas down here are malarial depending on the natural drainage patterns of the particular area. The immediate area you are viewing is dry and healthy with no malaria to speak of in the immediate area of the community. The area has a very clean and wonderful smell. There is malaria farther out in the greater general area however as a result of a different natural terrain.                                                                                                                                                Riberalta is the Bolivia sister community of Guayaramerin. In the 1998 NASA scientists negotiating for permission to search a meteorite crater on Arona indian lands near Riberalta negotiating reached a price of $500.00 cash, plus 500 rounds (or 500 boxes?) of 22 cal ammunition, plus 200 D cell batteries. Not all work was completed in the meteorite search due to the rainy season which filled up the crater and in 2002 NASA returned. The new negotiations were for a motorized canoe with two extra motors plus a rent paid office in Riberalta.                                                                                                                                   Looking at the photo above there was a railroad here that ran from Guajara-mirim to Puerto Velho, Brazil 300 miles down river, and it was the most expensive ever constructed per mile of rail in the world at the time of the early 20th Century. Well into the thousand figure or higher of laborers it is estimated died of malaria and yellow fever building the rail road as some of the lands along the line (path) it ran are naturally malarial and still are with no changes (in some of these areas more than 80% of the population has had malaria), in contrast to the rail road north and south terminal points Puerto Velho and Guajara-mirim which in terms of the immediate earth the communities are built on are both by nature well drained and dry and relatively free of malaria. The name of the railroad was the Madeira-Mamore rail way (Ferrocarril Diablo) and it was built to circumvent a troublesome area of river and transport rubber efficiently and cheaply competitively year round from the Bolivia Beni state and the states of Rondonia Brazil and where the explorer in 1925 colonel Percy Fawcett disappeared the Mato Grosso state of Brazil, at Guajara-mirim-Guaharamerin to the down river port of Puerto Velho, then by river down the Madeira to the main trunk of the Amazon just below Manaus and then on to the Atlantic and destinations thereafter.                                                                                                                                        However across the ocean other nations began planting and already had planted Brazilian-Bolivia rubber trees and produced rubber more cheaply than Brazil-Bolivia. Demand for Brazilian-Bolivia rubber fell and the railroad became less and less profitable. It shut down in the 1970s. In the classic book by H. M. Tomlinson  THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE, quote ".........they come here and shovel a little dirt and die. Or they get frightened and go". A special hospital was built with hundreds of beds to accomodate sick rail road workers and at the time was one of the largest hospitals in South America. The area has a considerable history. And the railroad may be rebuilt and become operative again to transport soybeans which will and are quickly becoming a major crop of the area for a cheaper and more efficient way to move them to the Atlantic. It will depend on the competetive cost analysis between river shipping and rail. It will be medically interesting as all the Malaria is still there along the railroad path.                                                                                                                                                         There are areas here that are naturally malarial and remain so (not drained like the New York State Syracuse swamps which caused the death of so many building the Erie Canal before drainage). To reiterate the immediate area you are looking at in the photo, the Guajara-mirim and twin port across river Guayaramerin is malaria free by nature, cases of malarial infection from this immediate area are few. However not many miles distant there is malaria. In case you are traveling and stopping at out of way places Brazil has mapped out all high malarial areas in the state of Rondonia, Brazil where Guajara-mirim is located down to Puerto Velho, Brazil also in the state of Rondonia, and in fact has mapped out most of Brazil for malarial risk (obtain a current map and remember these are to show you where the maleria is, not where it was). This is not true for Bolivia across river with the identical land terrain. To reiterate in some of these areas more than 80% of the population on the Brazilian side have had malaria and the statistics will be identical on the across the river Bolivia side. You can be sure that where there are larger communities built the very immediate area is relatively malaria free. Although a few cases do occur everywhere. And immedidatly along the rivers which every year floods give river banks to a distance in from the bank a washing and sanding to a smoothness there is no great amount of malarial mosquitos breeding. The deposited water drains back into the river or evaporates quickly. But this depends some on the flora along the bank. And less frequent big floods can deposit water farther inland from the bank river edge than normal, where it is better trapped and may drain out more slowly and/or evaporate more slowly. These deposited flood waters which do not drain for longer periods can become malarial more easily (that is productive grounds for maleria carrying mosquitos to breed in). Farther inland than the normal flood line whether wet from the occasional big flood, or rains on the land itself, there may be malaria due to natural blocked drainage patterns, areas which drain slowly and where deeper pockets of water are deposited and where flora may make evaporation slow. These are ideal breeding grounds for most mosquitos and it is mosquitos that spread Malaria. In floods the water deposited by the Mamore (Madeira) up on the banks is muddy but the mud content quickly settles leaving clear water draining or flowing very slowly back into the river, or not at all (the land only becoming dry by evaporation) and here mosquitos that carry malaria breed.  And do not leave out the fact that over the past hundred years the Mamore main river bed or channel with considerable flooding, in spots has changed to one side or the other many times leaving basically dry former river beds and main channels which may drain slowly or not at all and host as breeding areas mosquitos that carry malaria.                                                                                                                                                                          I can not do any better than this. There is actually no place in the Amazon basin you can not catch malaria. But there are many places you do not have to worry much about catching it. The communities of Guayaramerin and Guajara-mirim, south terminals of the Ferrocarril Diablo are to reiterate communities you do not have to worry much about catching malaria. But there is malaria a relative few miles distance.You will survive malaria today. Yet you do not want to catch it.                                                                                                                                                                                      I traveled down to the area (see above photo) by bus out of Trinidad, Bolivia taking forty four hours to cover the 300 miles to Guayaramerin over dirt road with meal stopovers in small communities, many restaurants open and under thatch roofs which serve good and inexpensive meals. There are a lot of pigs but I am accustomed to pigs. They will not cause you any sickness. The forty four hours covered one two hour stop to do repair work to a wheel. It was the winter dry season of August (winter in South America is summer in North America) and a  dry August. Windows open, visability at the front of the bus from the back of the bus is limited because of road dust. The road is entirely dirt-gravel. Wet season you can take a combination passenger livestock boat out of Trinidad, Bolivia (the boat will carry you and perhaps some livestock aboard and will tow wood livestock barges constructed in the Amazon, with livestock aboard the barges. This is the best time to get a daytime snap of a Jaguar along the shore. As Colonel Percy Fawcett wrote Jaguars are much more abundant in the savanna ranch lands than they are the Jungle. When a barge tips its cargo may be vunerable immediately at the shore. Under conditions other than this a Jaguar will not try to bring down a full grown bovine. A jaguar is the worlds third largest cat and although smaller more muscular and stronger than a lion pound for pound but it is a solitary hunter and an attack on a bovine under ordinary conditions would thus not get it a meal and might injure it. Jaguars in the Amazon basin never eat people. The reason for this is that people leave their numerous livestock out in the open at night not securing them better than themselves as they do in India for instance. Thus there is always an abundance of domestic pigs for Jaguars and Jaguars love pig. This guarantee of the Jaguar not being a man eater may not stand in the roadless primative upriver Lost World of  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that I mention. Where food may be scarcer and there is no domestic livestock at all. But a hired guide with a powerfull gun must be employed according to Bolivia law to go in there to reiterate.                                                                                                                                            Here diverging for a minute from the Amazonas is a specific Jaguar phenomena that applies to the southern state of Arizona in the United States along the border with Mexico where the writer camps in the outdoors. Many from Latin America reading this will realize it is the location where Latin American illegal workers are dropped off at the Mexican border to make the treck up through the southern Arizona wilderness without knowing the water holes and without sufficient water to the central cities of Arizona, and where so many have perished recently before reaching them. But not by the Jaguar but by scorching sun and lack of water. In this area of southern Arizona young, large, healthy male Jaguars have northern ranges that includes this southern United States Arizona wilderness, places like the Tumacacori wilderness north of the twin communities of Nogales, Arizona, Nogales, Mexico , and Jaguars here are not uncommon, as large wild game is very plentifull in this region and easily taken by these big and young healthy males. Yet they are born into a litter farther south in Mexico. And it is Mexico where the females remain as it is Mexico where there are a lot of loose domestic pigs, goats and sheep easily taken to feed their cubs. Getting back to the Jaguar males these big healthy males do not bother people in Arizona as the finding and killing of large game animals in this area of plenty is never a problem for them, and if they have a problem they can retreat a few miles into Mexico and there kill domestic loose pigs, goats and sheep and chickens. Up untill a few decades ago there were female Jaguars who gave birth to litters in the United States state of Arizona, but with the disappearance of loose domestic pigs, sheep, goats and chickens, the females now confine themselves to below the border in Mexico, where they can to reiterate kill easily domestic animals and their young born will thus survive.                                                                                                                                             To diverge a second time recently there have been episodes in the United States of the much smaller than the Jaguar wild cat, the Puma (Mountain Lion), killing people for food. The most recent incident is in the San Gabriel mountains of the Sierra Madres of the state of California of the United States. I am familiar with that area having camped there outdoors. And below at the mountains base were a lot of loose pigs, goats, sheep, and chickens. There are none loose this decade of the 21st century. Residents do not keep them. So food can become scarce for the Mountain Lion prompting it to kill people for food. "WELCOME TO THE DARK AGES"!                                                                                                                                            The river are clean and the shore malaria free where the captain of the boat will not let you walk on malerial land and the livestock are clean. River travel takes longer but is more comfortable and exceptionally scenic. The most comfortable and by far the fastest travel is to fly Bolivia Aereo Militar TAM, the Bolivian military airline for civilians. Travel by TAM is very cheap on its Dutch Junkers planes over the Amazon.                                                                                                                                                                 At the very bottom of this page I have included two other photos of Tiwanaku, both "stele", for reference. And on my homepage are two other photos I took, one a photo of the "Kalawaya" with very sophisticated stonework, the inner ancient 400 B.C.central city of Tiwanaku closed in by beautiful brass saw cut stone. And a photo of the inner ancient city of Tiwanaku, the Kalawaya, from the top of the much more ancient than 400 B.C. pyramid.         

(year 2004 - 2006)............. (2006) When HIV is treated early HIV Inhibitor medicines readily within a one year period return overall T 4 infection fighter white blood cells in an HIV infected person's body to a normal count (normal level). But at the same time there are specialized T white blood cells in the intestinal lining where this returning to normal level (normal count) is not so easily achieved - and the digestive tract is important. The most logical hypothetical reason for this isolated phenomena being that taken orally the HIV Inhibitor medicine dose is a concentrate in the intestines and at it's concentrated level is cytotoxic to healthy intestinal T cells which it kills. And this cytotoxic trauma is amplified by alcohol and food chemical additives cytotoxic trauma. There is no question that HIV treatment must be individually integrated combinationally as Cancer treatment is in Cancer Treatment Centers of America in the areas of medicine, nutrition, the physical, psychological and spiritual. One question being is the HIV Inhibitors medicine dose the very minimal dose needed to do what needs to be done - if the dose can be reduced significantly this will reduce cytotoxic trauma and damage to the intestinal T white blood cells. - and is the food the best for the individual and free of chemical additives and is alchohol being taken at an unwarranted level or time? And should HIV Inhibitor medicine be administered intraveneously or topically instead. Integrated individual attention must be given to the HIV patient - to permit the individual who becomes infected at age 30 to live to age 60 and beyond - which is very possi ble today.   (2004)  It is late summer 2004 and I am deep in the western Amazon basin at the twin communities of Guayaramerin, Bolivia and Guajara-mirim, Brazil located on the Mamore river a major tributary of the Amazon, which will change name not far down river to the Madeira and empty into the main trunk of the Amazon a short ways below Manaus. I have been researching Chagas disease prevention. In not too many days, September 8, I will fly out of Guayaramerin airport on Bolivian military TAM (Transportes Aereo Militar) and return to the U.S.                                                                                                                                Brazil along with Chili has eliminated Chagas disease with the use of "Daisy resin" a neurotoxin produced from the Daisy flower which is deadly to the vinchuca. That should not surprise anyone as many insects have adversity to one or another type of flora. Cattle to escape marauding insects find quicky what type of flora to rest in where these insects are no bother. In apple orchards certain types of flowers keep maurading insects away. The Daisy resin neurotoxin Chile and Brazil use is synthesized in the laboratory and produced commercially thus not natural, but nearly as lethal against the vinchuca nevertheless and much longer lasting when applied or sprayed than the natural Daisy resin. It is not as expensive as the natural Daisy resin but still very expensive. All of South America relies on pyrethrums (neurotoxin natural or synthesized) from the Chrysanthemum (Daisy flower, or called the Margarita in Latin America ). When synthetically produced it is called pirethrin (permethrin). And it is chemically sprayed on human habitations giving long lasting protection against the vinchuca insect. Coming into contact with it by the vinchuca causes the insect to go into spasms, or knocks it out, or kills it. At the same time the Daisy neurotoxin is very gently on humans. To reiterate the natural Daisy resin neurotoxin is the most deadly but it has limitations in terms of long duration prevention effectiveness and needs constant reapplication. The synthetic version is a satisfactory compromise and is saving many lives. To use even the synthetic version to wipe out Chagas disease in a nation is not an undertaking for a poor country. And Bolivia is a poor country.                                                                                                                                          They sell permethrin (pirethrin) here at the Insecticida store in Guayaramerin and I could not resist purchasing a small bottle. Cost of the bottle is a days average Bolivian wage. There is some money in Guayaramerin and dwellings are made of materials vinchucas do not feel secure in and avoid. Roofs are tile and tin and walls brick or cinder block so the residents of Guayaramerin do not have to worry about the vinchuca. Thus the thinking may be let those outside the community take care of their own problems the residents of Guayaramerin having enough problems to handle in Guayaramerin without adding Chagas disease to their worries. This is a satisfactory outlook perhaps if there were good public libraries in Bolivia for the population to do research in. But there are not. They are few and far between to non existant. The fact is that before traveling to Guayaramerin I had gone to the public National Library in La Paz, a fine old buiding, with a blond marble staircase, that has seen better days, and not found a single thing pertaining to Chagas disease (That was the summer of 2004. In the spring of 2005 I was at the National Library again and did not find a thing relating to Osteoporosis, I will get into Osteoporosis later. It is not much of a problem in most of Bolivia).  I found absolutely nothing (and Chagas is a terrible problem in Bolivia). Then the question is what do the people living outside of communities like Guayaramerin, who live not in brick or cinder block homes with tile or tin roofs, but live ninety five percent in thatch dwellings, do? What do they do with no library access to information on Chagas disease? Most people in Bolivia live outside of cities and large villages!                                                                                                              Here in Guayaramerin on the main avenue, not far down avenue towards the bus station from the second park and quite a distance down avenue from the main park or plaza, is a large well kept store called "La Organization De Mujeres Amazonas, Productos Amazonas". They sell a lot of different natural grains (in bulk if you want bulk) and such products as honey and it is here that you can purchase the folk remedy boiled down Cayman fat and other like remedies. A few blocks on the main avenue from the central park or plaza heading in the opposite direction from the bus station I came upon a varity store that sold what appeared to be hand crafted gold jewelry not too expensive, and on the shelf at that same store found a large bottle of blood red Sangre de Drago. I do not know what product the bottle originally contained. They wanted $10.00 for it.                                                                                                                                               Reduvid bugs (Vinchucas) which carry Chagas are not confined to the Amazon and surrounding regions. Vinchuca insects which carry Chagas are limited by the snow line found across the southern United States from California to Florida. But rarely are people infected by this insect in the United States which expensive and modern building materials use in the make insecure, and it avoids. The victims today of Chagas in the southern United States are stray dogs who sleep in unused outback buildings which have not been torn down. The Reduvid bug (Vinchuca) carries the too often deadly and debilitating invader Trypanosoma Cruzi protozoa and it is a danger to infants 24 hours a day. To others, as its "feeding work" takes some time and energy, it is only a danger during sleep at night. First it walks up on or drops down with its wing on a sleeping person and cuts into the person and then spends about twenty minutes rotating around the lesion it makes feeding on the persons blood untill it is sate. And as it feeds it releases dung on the wound it has created and its legs and feet pack the dung infected with T Cruzi into the lesion wound. At this point slapping at the insect and rubbing the bite further packs the T Cruzi protozoa into the lesion.                                                                                                                                 And do not listen when it is said that reduvid bugs (vinchucas) that carry T Cruzi are strictly lowland insects. They are both lowland and highland insects. Tiwanaku is not bothered by the vinchuca and T Cruzi. But Tiwanaku is locatd at over 13,000 feet in altitude. Neither of the two most popular family aircraft today, the Piper Warrior and Cessna Skyhawk can do anything but bump down a runway at the elevation of Tiwanaku. Depending on which aircraft, Tiwanaku is 1,000 to 2,000 feet higher in altitude than their rated ceiling heights. The wings of the vinchuca neither can not function well in the thiner Tiwanaku air. And that means the vinchuca will not get the food it needs and will starve. Thus vinchucas stay at under 10,800 feet altitudes where its wings can function properly. And they do very well below that altitude if the habitation is secure and the food (people, dogs, cattle etc) is there. In Tupiza, Bolivia (at 9,500 feet altitude) in recent years the number of dellings in which the vinchuca dwelt in communities around Tupiza reached as high as 70%. And although not all vinchucas are infected with T Cruzi as many as many as thirty percent to forty percent may be. The dwellings around Tupiza are in large percentage thatch, adobe with thatch and grass roofs, and mud, which are building materials in which the Vinchuca feels secure and prospers. The Vinchucas wings function well enough at 9,500 feet that they assist him in finding sufficient food. Besides residing in dwellings Vinchucas may also reside a short distance from human habitations in cover nature provides for them, to crawl up to the dwelling after families have gone to sleep at night to feed. Thus it is good to draw a strip of Daisy resin neurotoxin, natural or synthetic, across doors with opening underneath leading from outside to the inside and any other openings, or spray the neurotoxin on burlap and plug the openings with the burlap. Before you go to into Vinchuca areas, if you are going to live in these more basic materials dwellings, see your doctor on this neurotoxin and how to use it.                                                                                                                                                   Lastly the uncontacted people of South America have been nearly free of Chagas disease. The smoke from their fires in the center of their dwellings may drive away the reduvid bug (vinchuca) and what plants or barks and woods they burn may be important. Additionally when out hunting these people may purpousfully sleep around flora that the vinchuca avoids. Uncontacted people like the Kayapo may even prepare special places while out hunting to sleep by planting special flora. The Kayapo always have food growing along their hunting trails which they have purpousfully planted there. There is much we do not know.                                                                                                                                             Some ancient people of South America suffered greatly from chagas disease. Research on 7,000 year old mummies in the Andes mountains of the South American continant shows some were 40% infected with Chagas disease. A cure for Chagas does not exist although people with the disease may be medically helped.                                                                                                                                                           Bolivia does not have an HIV problem and before coming to Bolivia I had concluded my research on HIV untill a vaccine comes along or new and better medicines come along.  There are already drugs for HIV which are scientific marvels called HIV Protease and HIV Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors that will permit HIV infected people to live thirty years or longer.See my homepage http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/.                                                                                One month after I left Bolivia for the United States in the late summer 2004 the U.S. Surgeon General came out with a critical report that in a decade and one half 50% of U.S. citizens over fifty years of age will suffer from Osteoporosis. And ipso facto this means that many people younger than fifty will also suffer from the disorder as a result of long standing poor nutritional habits (a small percentage of people with Osteoporosis do not have poor nutritional habits but have medical conditions that unduly tax the calcium in their bodies. However with the great majority is is simply poor nutritional eating habits over long duration). And by late summer of 2004 having been in the altiplano I knew that it was a very well nourished area. And shortly after the Surgeon Generals report I found out there is no Osteoporosis of the common type in the Altiplano. So in late Spring of 2005 I returned to Bolivia.                                                                                                                                             But first let me mention the Tiwanaku ruins. I was first at the Tiwanaku ruins in the summer of 2004. Immediately what I saw in my mind at the Tiwanaku compound called the Kalasasaya was an early Mormon settlement of Nazarenes that preceeded the Mormons in the Salt Lake City valley by more than one thousand years. Reading the pictorial writing on the stele that is the first thing that struck me, "Nazarenes"!. What I read was "the father, the son, and the holy spirit", and I was seeing a series of birth scenes of Jesus including the baby in the manger scene at the base of the entirely charcoal grey colored stele shown on this page you are reading now. I am convinced this is this is the manger scene of the birth of Jesus.  I have my own idea of what century this stele dates back to but it has to be some time after the birth of Jesus and before a great drought of many years near 1,000 A.D. that collapsed the Tiwanaku valley and parched it beyond supporting only a very minimal number of people. My best guess is the Stele you see here, the one entirely charcoal color, dates back to somewheres around 600 A.D.                                                                                                                                                        My reason for this dating is thus. The Year of the Pale Sun occured 536 A.D. (the beginning of the European dark ages and great starvation in the world that year 536 A.D. caused by great quantities of volcanic dust in the atmosphere above and covering the entire world, caused by an immense volcanic eruption in the south pacific-indian ocean). The following year the dust fell to earth and nourished the crops. Fifteen years after the Year of the Pale Sun Tiwanaku began constructing a massive system of canals in the Tiwanaku valley filled by the Tiwanaku river. The canals were scientifically designed to both provide irrigation and fish for food, and provide sufficient heat at night from the water warmed by the sun during daylight to prevent frost damage to crops by heat radiated by the canal water. This canal system which can be viewed from the air was in use untill the great drought around 1,000 A.D. four hundred years following their construction. And during this time span of 400 years Tiwanaku became the center focus of South America. That is after construction of this advanced agricultural system around 550 A.D. Tiwanaku became very important and it is this period when those across the Atlantic were most likely to visit and see for themselves this remarkable scientifically designed agricultural valley. As for the entirely charcoal colored stele itself I see him every day walking down Avenida El Prado in the capital of Bolivia carrying a briefcase or in dungarees munching on a hamburger. He does not really look any different than the stele. Just as I have seen many in the state of Veracruz, Mexico who look just like the Olmec stele. This agricultural marvel of the Tiwanaku valley of an irrigational system that prevents frost damage to crops is being studied and produces bountiful crops never seen in the area in recent historical rememberance. And it can be employed to increase the agricultural production far north to places like Rivera de Loup in Canada and the high cold frost Valley of Mexico. Some thirteen miles down the valley the Tiwanaku river empties into Lake Titicaca. In the photo I provide you can see the clouds in that direction caused by the evaporation of the massive 1,000 foot deep lake.                                                                                                                                                            At the time of the drought when the Tiwanaku river could no longer provide the water for its canal system the Lake Titicaca water level fell by evaporation 30 feet below its outlet level where begins the Desaguadero river that flows south to Lake Poopo where it evaporates in a massive flat inland sea basin. It took decades for Lake Titicaca to make up the long drought deficiency and reach the level of its outlet and flow south again. Tiwanaku sits about 700 feet above Lake Titicaca at 13,300 feet altitude. The soil of the Tiwanaku valley is rich which made it worth the ancients putting in the expensive and elaborate canal agricultural system. And it is a good grazing area also, now for Holstien cattle and other cattle, and before Europeans the south American llama (a breed of camel native to South America) suited to that area, which produced the milk, cheese and meat of the ancient Tiwanaku valley, and still does to a much more limited extent                                                                                                                                               And I forgot to mention the huge magnet medical clinic stones atop the Tiwanaku pyramid. I have not included a mention of them in my homepage. I do not know if they work or for what illnesses. And let me also mention the book the white and brown colored stele is holding. The tour leader that took me around in group in the summer of 2004 said it was made glass. I would guess it is a small "arc of the covenant" or in other words a capacitor with the ten commandments inside. If he opens that you will get a jolt.                                                                                                                                                     The 1,000 B.C. Olmec alphabet of Veracruz state in Mexico was very ancient and they were indeed ancient navigators and settlers (go to http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id9.html ) yet were still newcomers to the Americas. The Greek philosopher Plato wrote a lengthy letter to the Greek Critias describing a journey westerly across the Atlantic and around the tip of Argentina-Chile and up the Pacific coast to Ecuador, South America and then sailing on the Peru Current westerly through the south sea Islands untill one reached China. The old Atlantis Plato wrote of was down in the Lake Poopo area called Pampa Aullagas an inactive ancient volcanic island on which the Bolivia villiage Pampa Aullagas is located. An ancient massive inland part of the year dry sea bed in the south Bolivia Altiplano by Lake Poopo, fed by waters from surrounding mountains and Lake Titicaca. This sea bed is filled at a shallow level with water half the year and is dry half the year. It is near a volcanic island and situated in the part of the year dry inland sea bed. The hills and mountains surrounding the area are wealthy in Tin ore and Tin was in desperate need by those  ancients across the Atlantic for making tools and weapons. The only place it could be purchased at was Cornwall England with a monopoly. Which led to the development of the old Atlantis near Lake Poopo (Lake Pampa Aullagas is another name for Lake Poopo), Bolivia, in proximity near the tin mines. To reiterate the massive inland sea basin near Pampa Aullagas is half of the year dry and half of the year filled with shallow water in wet years. In this inland sea bed on an inactive volcanic island, Atlantis, was built. Which is today the very small community of Pampa Aullagas living on the volcanic island. The inland sea bed is an evaporation basin for the waters of Lake Titicaca that flow down to it and from waters from the mountains surrounding it. The island sits at an elevation around 12,200 feet in altitude There is an outlet to the south of Pampa Aullagas but many years no water flows out as all water evaporates in the inland sea bed. The outlet of Lake Poopo is called the Laca Jahira river and it flows, partly underground in places, into the Coipasa Salt Flat. There is an old inactive volcanic crater island, nearby Pampa Aullagas. projecting out of the ancient high dry seabed and a villiage called Santuario de Quillacas built on a mound in the center of the crater. This could be the reason the people moved to the new Atlantis above the south shore of Lake Titicaca called today the Tiwanaku valley. The crater is judged harmless but perhaps some seismic event happened somewhere else in South America or the world to cause suspicion the crater was dangerous. (It should be mentioned the villiage of Pampa Aullagas sits above a volcano crater hidden under deposited sediment and a part of Pampa Aullugas has sunk down into this crater partially shaken there by an earthquake. There is a sister villiage Santuario de quillacas not many miles distance built in a volcano crater open to see. Both of these old partially buried in deep deposited earth volcanos are "Holocine" in their nature, meaning they have erupted withing the past 10,000 years or possibly have erupted within the past 10,000 years. And the area volcanoes surrounding Pampa Aullagas are all Holocine volcanoes. When part of Pampa Aullagas sunk partially into its buried crater how did it affect the people of the old Atlantis? In truth any volcano or volcano crater Holocine or possibly Holocine must regarded as "potentially active". In the case of Pampa Aullagas the volcanoe crater buried in sediment beneath Pampa Aullagas had at some time in the past been "bubbling" to form the pocket which the earthquake collapsed part of Pampa Aullagas into - unless there are gold veins below ground for example that has seen extensive tunnel mining untill the earth became honeycombed. There are rumors.). The mountains around Pampa Aullagas are rich in copper, silver and gold. But it is in a very remote spot. As of yet few people have ever heard of Pampa Aullagas. Few people in Bolivia have ever heard of it. It remains an earth end.                                                                                                                                              The Kayapo tribe of Indians heavily built and averaging 6 foot 4 inches in height, who are found in the Brazil forests east of the Bolivia-Brazil Lost World of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have a legend that they were not always located where they are now. That they came from a land where there was "never any night" and one day they were hunting high up wild pigs when the clouds opened up and they looked down and could see their new land. When they arrived there they did not even know how to start a fire in the dense forest canopy but the Jaguar man had the kindness to show them how. That is the origin of the title FIRE ON THE AMAZON. As Suarez Island you see a short ways upriver in the photo looks on the other side from the up river direction like the island in the background Sandra Bullock dying is taken up in a float plane from in the movie FIRE ON THE AMAZON I had questions about the title. The movie was shot in the Amazon in the early half of the past decade. Although the movie is about Bolivia much of it was shot in roadless Iquitos, Peru and the land in the Amazon basin from area to area looks no different and there are many islands on the rivers. I never found out for certain if Suarez Island you see in the photo is where the departing sceen took place in the movie. I was going to call my page FIRES ON THE AMAZON but the Kayapo are singular so I titled it FIRE ON THE AMAZON. However now going over in detail photo Images of Guayaramerin in the major search engines and piecing them carefully together I am certain with one hundred percent certainty more than one scene was shot in Guayaramerin along the river including the final scene I have already mentioned. Bolivia showing across river Guajara-merim, Brazil. So I have changed the title to FIRE ON THE AMAZON, A NATIVE LEGEND. The movie FIRE ON THE AMAZON was shot in all roadless boat travel areas and semi roadless areas of the Amazon with exception of the train scene shot on the western slopes of the Andes north of Lima, Peru. The movie should have gotten Sandra Bullock the best actress of the year Acadamy Award for 1993, as certain as Plato is describing in his lengthy letter to fellow Greek Critias the westerly Atlantic-Pacific ocean route to China with stopover at Tiwanaku - which he is. All the acting is of excellence in respective roles down to Peuvian actress Lourdes Mindreau who also is a writer who has recently published a collected work of poems. But the movie remains a highly limited budget production movie of simplicity and entertainment.                                                                                                     The Kayapo could have originated in Tiwanaku and escaped the drought. But I am more disposed to believe they originated in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a land of many wild pigs. For no other scholarly reason. But then Tiwanaku before the great drought had a lot of food. And people as large as they are need a lot of food.                                                                                                                                             The area between Pampa Aullagas and Tiwanaku is very ancient in terms of visitors from across the Atlantic. Much Sumerian writing 3,000 B.C. has been turned up by archaeologists in the area so Plato (if he had been a participant in the voyage to China he writes of, the opposite continent) was a recent visitor as visitors go. Ending his letter to the Greek Critias Plato describes not old Atlantis (Pampa Aullagas) as in the beginning of his letter he does, but instead describes Tiwanaku (to where the commerce center had moved, the new Atlantis). Tiwanaku was a very wealthy place that could much increase the treasury of Greece and the treasury of the Phonecians, who located in Greece at that time. So Plato sunk Atlantis. Which was the common thing to do Greece and the Phoenicians wanting the revenues for themselves. The Hebrew-Phoenicians out of a small island at the mouth of the Amazon create a giant whirlpool alphabet map letter that navigators would think about when they see the muddy discharge of the great amazon river at sea long before they can see land. It is probable that Phoenicians and earlier the Sumerians crossing the Atlantic sailed up the Amazon and camped on Suarez island you see in the photo. The Phoenicians by creating the giant whirlpool (the letter Ayin of the Hebrew-Phoenician alphabet) were protecting a wealth producing convenient trade route heading directly up the Amazon to places like Atlantas in the Bolivia Altiplano. Except for the final highlands treck of a weeks duration over the eastern Andes it can all be accessed by easy river travel up the Amazon from the Atlantic.                                                                                                                                               I would like to note that the early explorers of Spain and Portugal wrote down that the natives of the Amazon Basen were healthier than themselves and they were being seriously militarily impeded by this. They set to find out the reasons for superior health. And some of the Amazon basin natives lived they reported to a true age of 130 years. And I want to mention South America indians ate bone marrow and considered it a delicacy. Packaged bone marrow is available in U.S. supermarkets. I eat fresh non cooked beef bone marrow. Very fresh and not cooked it is an excellent sandwich spread as delicious as butter. Very nutritious and healthy. And the soft bone inside can be scraped. And consider that cow bone is one of the very highest grade sources of calcium. At the same time do not neglect sardines which unless they are deboned are also an outstanding source of calcium.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     We have very modern scientific technology today. The location of Atlantis was pinpointed using sattelite imaging. Which is a far cry from the technology of the Sumerians of 3,000 B.C. navigating up the Amazon river and chiseling their letters and language in rock outcrops along the river. But the Sumerians were late comer world mariners also. The Bolivian ancients, the Peruvians, the Ecuadorians had arrived from distant lands from Asia, and some from lands as far distant as Ireland  (witness the blond haired tall european people of 3,000 B.C. who lived in the Gobi Desert). The Bolivians, Peruvians and Ecuadorians had a map of the entire world in their heads and decided to sail back and westerly around the world. The gigantic inland lake Titicaca with a tide and waves provided them with an intermediate step in building first reed boats that could navigate the Lake and then move on to reed boats which could sail the oceans. So it was people of these three nations that first sailed around the world. The world map was in their heads. For no other reason they were the first.                                                                                                                                                        I flew TANS Airlines from Lima, Peru to Juliaca, Peru in the spring of  2005 but in the summer of 2004 I took a bus out of Lima and proceeded to Bolivia. On a stopover in Arequipa, Peru I noticed a health medicine store set up in the mid portion of the station. The herbal medicine clerk was very enthusiastic about Una de Gato as a curative medicine but seemed oblivious to Sangre de Drago. At the health food store on the main plaza in Cochabamba they have many Sangre de Drago remedies but no Una de Gato that I could find. And I have a feeling that with the passing of uncontacted people in the Amazon a "unknown sense" we do not understand today is being lost. Can these uncontacted people tell by smell and taste the particular Sangre de Drago and Una de Gato that make the best medicines. On the third voyage of Columbus sailing east along the coast of Venezuela and Brazil the native indians were much more prone to trade for the lower grade gold with higher copper content gold, and they did not use sight but taste and smell of the metal. This was the gold less valuable on the European market and the men of Columbus were more than happy to trade using it.                                                                                                                                                       Well the time has come to close. While in Bolivia this past November-December 2005 my mother age 94 broke her hip in a fall at a Mohawk Indian gambling casino. And I did not know if future ventures into Bolivia or Peru or Brazil would be possible. But the bone is healed and she is walking again. If things work out I would like to go to roadless Iquitos, Peru to study the native medicine market there. There is no better place in the world to study it. Or go to the Bolivia Pando region where uncontacted people can still be found I am told by local Bolivians. Or retire at Guanay, Bolivia where one can simply dig money (gold) out of the ground. It is a lot of work and an old hobby of mine. I hope my page title FIRE ON THE AMAZON has not offended anyone in Bolivia. I already know it has irked some or simply they do not like George Bustamante.                                                                                                                                                           The Bolivia Altiplano Diet is about the same as the U.S. diet. But the Altiplano has the lowest rate of the common type of Osteoporosis in the world. That type caused by prolonged poor nutritional eating habits. The Altiplano diet basically consists of whole grains, vegetables, tiny dried uncleaned fish you eat raw by the handfull (a small raw uncleaned trout can be substituted although probably this will be disagreeable to most), meats including organ meats, poultry and poultry products, raw milk and unpastuerized cheese, honey and natural syrups from trees, and berries (they lose much value without the seeds). The raw milk brings up the classical Finland studies of four decades past with a sample population of 500,000 (half a million) citizens of that nation of raw and pastuerized milk versus homogenized milk.The study concluded people were getting sick and dying early as a result of homogenized milk which changes the molecular structure of the milk. However many of the citizens of Finland did not listen and in the past three decades Osteoporosis in the nation has increased 400% with some of this figure though to be a result of the droping of natural whole grains.                                                                                                                                                     In the Altiplano some of the whole grains they grow are local to the area and to the alergic do not produce glutin problem which interfere with absorbtion of food nutrients and as a result cause Osteoporosis, a rare type of Osteoporosis. Although I found in the spring of 2004 in the capital La Paz that the Public National Library contains no material on Osteoporosis, the hospital Clinicas General (General Hospital) was very helpfull and the hospital sees Osteoporosis as becoming a problem. Institutes affiliated with both Hospital Clinicas and universities directly across the street were also very helpfull including permission to use a private library and making for me needed photocopies. As were hospitals and city government health offices in Santa Cruz and Cochabamba although overall not as much so and I gained Osteoporosis approaching a health problem level in these two cities was not a problem. I had already guessed that looking at the inexpensive and very nourishing street food in these two cities. And I gained in the spring of 2004 an interview with a high professional in the Bolivia National Department of Health learning Osteoporosis was being monitored but did not gain the impression that in Bolivia as a whole Osteoporosis was approaching any critical level. To reiterate the Hospital Clinicas (General Hospital) of La Paz was helpfull. Had I wanted they would have given me a running account or running tally of Osteoporosis cases. Doctors studying these arrive at a calculus in their head. Which La Paz doctors had already had done, seeing Osteroporosis as a developing problem. So I took the hospital word for it which is very likely a correct assessment. It was better to leave it at that and not put them through the extra work as in the end this running tally head calculus formulation is not generally regarded as acceptable research in the U.S., which always demands a formal statistical study.  To view the October 2004 U.S. Surgeon Generals priority report on Osteoporosis as rapidly becoming a gravely critical disease in the U.S. go to http://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/news/speeches/10142004.htm . (This is the U.S. Surgeon Generals site).                                                                                                                                                                 st in Late June 2005 I was in Mexico City and dropped in on the National Library looking at the most recent Mexico national health report which is the year 2003. Looking at bone fractures statistics, prima faci I do not see any significant differences with the United States bone fractures picture. I say prima faci but taking a good educated guess I would say that overall the United States and Mexico are probably about the same in Osteoporosis rates. I have noticed in Mexico the decline of street food in the past decade and one half. I was down at Bellas Artes before and after heading to the National Library around that time and noticed many frankfurters being served mixed in, when in the past beef or pork was used, as meat in the meals. All that can be afforded now is fatty beef and fatty pork that boils down to nothing so no meat shows. That is there is minimal profit when using beef or pork now that is not so fatty it does not boil away and no meat can be seen. This is not the case with frankfurters which remain plump and visable. The peso is having its say. There is a striking reduction in nutritional quality of street food. Also I would like to complain that the outstanding Mexico study led by government medical investigator Felipe Uribe ms, in the city of Comitan sister city of San Cristobal de las Casas, state of Chiapas, Mexico, on rates of HIV infected prostitutes in southern central Chiapas, has been taken off line. It turned out in the study that one in on hundred and fifty five prostitutes were HIV infected. That is one of the lowest HIV infection rates in the world for this honerable profession. However I have some time ago when this study was on line disagreed to Felipe Uribi and Mexico that the low rate of HIV is not because these women in their mid twenties and thirties were not exposed to HIV at any usual rate. They had normal rates of common venereal disease.Yet the slowed down pace of living in far south central Mexico does not require them to survive when they contact a common venereal disease to keep on having sex. And they can wait untill the lesion is healed and HIV has no route to invade. And there is the issue that much of this area concomitantly relies heavily on traditional medicine along with ancient Maya and folk medicine. The 49ers in the California gold rush reported for cure of some diseases they went to Spanish doctors, and for some to the mountain indians and for others to both. See my page concerning the possible complimentary role of both traditional and Maya medicine in Chiapas, Mexico http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id1.html and that people in Chiapas may be using a flora, Sangre De Drago, which may contain Lentivirus first cousin to HIV antibodies, to prevent HIV infection in the beginning. I am going to make a personal request to the Mexico national department of health to put this important study back on line. Because it is getting old does not affect its value. Rather a good study is like a stradivarius violin.                                                                                                             This venture I returned from Bolivia to my home in Fulton County in the state of New York in the United States on December 11, 2005 to find a large lit highway billboard sign (since taken down) that read CIGARETTES CONTAIN UREA - SO DOES YOUR PEE. The sign was paid for by New York State Department of Health money by a counties coalition anti cigarette group that had control of the money.  The truth is so does Liver contain urea and people need Liver for good health. It is an important food. It has been one and one half year since the U.S. surgeon general reported the peril of Osteoporosis in the United States. There as of yet is not a coordinated effort between state and Federal Government on the problem, it appears prima faci.                                                                                                                                     I hope that this early historical research on Bolivia will find its way somehow helpfull to the historical research of former Bolivia president and historian Carlos Mesa and the other Bolivia historians.                                                                                                Malaria, in terms of United States tourists using the information, is my next area of research beginning in Iquitos, Peru where I am reading on the internet things have been let slide the past few decades and Malaria is reoccuring. With honesty as Amazon rivers with floods keep changing channels and old deserted channels can create new potential conditions for maleria carrying mosquito breeding grounds, and there are other reasons, there is much to research. I will then move down to the Guajaramirins and Puerto Velho. It will be particularly interesting if the new crop down in that area, Soybeans (Sojas), are shipped from the Guaajaramirins on the old rebuilt "Ferrocarril Diablo" to Puerto Velho instead of waterway on the Mamore (Madeira), Guajaramirins to Puerto Velho. I want also to get into more native medicines counterparts to the Enchanacea herb used by native north american tribes. In fact "Chicoric Acid" (refer to my homepage http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/ ) was first isolated from a South America Bolivian native herb medicine (although to reiterate our North American native herb medicine Enchanacia also contains Chicoric Acid). We know today that Chicoric Acid will suppress HIV reproduction and additionally acts against virus as does penicilin against bacteria by destroying the cell membrane, and the amount of suppression and destruction of the cell membrane is dependent on the concentration. Thus even at a low level of concentration as found in the natural herbs Chicoric Acid will to some extent in stage one of HIV (pre seroconversion) lower HIV viral load so that the body can more easily throw off naturally the HIV virus and thus never seroconvert to HIV+ status. This will be true of other virus also. I will begin this research in Iquitos, Peru the most loigical place to begin. And then travel Bolivia and Brazil on malaria investigation.         James Franklin Lawton