Everything about the untimely death of Heath Ledger is disturbing.

The loss of a talented and handsome actor who was just reaching his prime. The increasingly likely scenario that this was not suicide, but a tragic accident.

And, of course, the fact that a two-year-old girl has lost her daddy - a little girl so young she was innocently smiling in last week's snatched paparazzi pictures, unaware of what had happened.

To me, however, one detail in the account of Heath Ledger's final weeks was particularly and personally chilling, the actor's description of his intractable insomnia.

"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night," he told an interviewer last November. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted and my mind was still going."

I didn't have to hear his voice to guess the weariness and desperation behind his words - the torture of a body that is craving rest but a mind that simply won't allow it.

The American scientists have opened unknown earlier a virus which, presumably, is the reason of one of the most dangerous forms of a cancer of a skin - a cancer from Merkel cells. The new virus which has received the name Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), is present in 80 % of tumors of this type.

Merkel cells settle down in deep layers of skin epidemics and considered crucial for tactile sensitivity. The cancer from Merkel cells is an aggressive malignant tumor of the skin amazing mainly of older persons and patients with weakened immunity, in particular sick of AIDS, and also carried transplantation of body. The reason of disease is unknown.

On a greater part of the European territory of Russia, except for Average Volga and southern areas, on Monday unstable, damp-windy weather with the lowered atmospheric pressure is expected. At such weather the state of health of the people, suffering such illnesses, as a hypotonia and a vegeto-vascular dystonia can worsen.