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....... known with the term Progeria, "Prematurely Old" greek derivation, due to the fact that usually presents wrinkling and aging of face. Progeria occurs in two forms: Progeria of childhood, described by Jonathan Hutchinson (1886) and Hastings Gilford (1897), diagnosed in the first or second year of life and Progeria adultorum commonly indicated as Werner Syndrome.....

In the years 1941-1942, the G.B. makes experiments with anthrax on Scottish islands. Forty years later (1982) Insland Gruinard is still heavily contaminated. Despite all attempts to disinfect the island, the spores of this experiment have led to quarantine them for 48 years, until 1990. In 1986 a specialized company was paid half a million pounds to decontaminate the 520-acre island, scattering on the ground 280 tons of formaldehyde in dilute 2000 tons of seawater. Today if someone dispersed in the atmosphere the anthrax bacteria near a city of 500 thousand inhabitants, he could cause the death of over 90 thousand people within a week. "It should be remembered- as says Graham Pearson, University Professor of International Security of Bradford - that biological terrorism is a major threat to our world"

A Roma, verso la fine del `400, si contavano circa 6800 meretrici, escludendo le clandestine. A Venezia le prostitute erano costrette a girare con un fazzoletto giallo intorno al collo come segno di riconoscimento. Fu l`astinenza sessuale il provvedimento che la Chiesa adottò come rimedio per contrastare tale malattia, ed il Pontefice Paolo IV°, intorno alla metà del `500, decretò con un editto la cacciata da Roma e da tutto lo Stato Pontificio delle prostitute. Il malcontento popolare costrinse la Chiesa a trovare una sede dove fosse possibile praticare il meretricio lontano dalla città: si decise per una località al di là del Tevere, oggi Trastevere.

In Rome, towards the end of the '400, clandestines excluding, were available approximately 6800 prostitutes. In Venice the prostitutes were forced to walk with a yellow handkerchief around the neck like sign of acknowledgment. It was the sexual abstinence that the Church adopted as a remedy in order to avoid such disease and Pope Paul IV, around to the half of the '500, decreed with an edict an evicting from Rome and all the Papal State of the prostitutes. The popular rebellion forced the Church to find a center to pratice prostitution across Tevere: today Trastevere. In the " De preservatione a carie gallica" of 1555, Gabriele Falloppia devised one individual protection against syphilis consisting in one patch of linen to shape of bag "ad mensuram glandis" soaked with mercury: it was the forerunner of the modern condom.