A dermatologist linked to the investigation into Michael Jackson's death denied giving the star dangerous drugs on Wednesday as mystery shrouded the King of Pop's final resting place.
As the dust settled on an emotion-filled Los Angeles memorial watched by up to one billion fans worldwide according to some estimates, attention returned Wednesday to the role of drugs in Jackson's tragic demise.
Investigators are reportedly looking into five doctors who treated the superstar in the past and have zeroed in on a powerful sedative -- Diprivan -- discovered at Jackson's rented mansion after his death.
Diprivan is commonly used to induce unconsciousness in hospital patients ahead of major surgery and experts say it should only be administered by a trained anesthesiologist.
Jackson's long-time dermatologist Arnold Klein on Wednesday denied he was the source of the drugs found but said he had often been concerned other medical professionals were supplying the singer with medications.
"I didn't give him this crap that they're talking about," he told ABC television's Good Morning America. "How am I going to prescribe Diprivan when I don't understand how to use it?"
Klein, who said he treated Jackson three days before his mysterious death on June 25, believes that any doctor found to have supplied the star with drugs should be prosecuted for manslaughter.
"I say that anyone who makes someone an addict or gives a person potentially dangerous substances directly to them to use, like propofol is a criminal," Klein said, referring to the generic name for Diprivan.
"It becomes nothing more than a manslaughter, or something worse than that."
Klein revealed that Jackson appeared to be in good health a few days before his death. "He was not in terrible pain when I saw him. He danced in the office. He was very happy and dancing," he said.
"I saw nothing at that point in time that would make me worry whatsoever but I always was concerned about him because I always worried about other doctors," Klein said.
"Here's the problem with Michael: no matter what he wanted, someone would give it to him," added Klein, saying he was not one of the five physicians reportedly under scrutiny by investigators.
"I'm not one of the five doctors. I've not been examined by anyone, I've not been contacted by police in Los Angeles," he said.
Unidentified sources close to the investigation told CNN and ABC Wednesday that Jackson's body had been riddled with needle marks and collapsed veins consistent with intravenous use of a drug like Diprivan.
The Los Angeles coroner's office has said no final cause of death will be revealed until results of exhaustive toxicology tests are confirmed in the next four weeks. A death certificate released Tuesday stated the cause of Jackson's demise had been "deferred."
A gold-plated coffin bearing Jackson's body took center stage at a star-studded but somber send-off at the Staples Center on Tuesday.
However the whereabouts of Jackson's body remained a closely guarded secret on Wednesday, uncertainty likely to fuel speculation that the singer's remains may yet end up at his beloved Neverland Ranch northwest of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times reported on its website the body was in safekeeping and no final decision had been made about a time or place for burial.
Jackson's daughter Paris, 11, grabbed international attention with her heartbreaking comments at her father's memorial on Tuesday.
"Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just wanted to say I love him so much," Paris said before dissolving into tears and being comforted by Jackson's family.
Television ratings released by media group Nielsen Wednesday revealed 31.1 million Americans tuned in for the memorial, making it the third-most watched funeral in US history.
Only the funerals of former President Ronald Reagan in 2004, seen by 35 million and Princess Diana in 1997, (33.2 million) attracted higher numbers.
Jackson sold more than 750 million albums during a four-decade career that was tainted by repeated allegations of child abuse, his startling physical transformation and his eccentric behavior.

Scientists claim to have created human sperm for the first time in a breakthrough they say could lead to new treatment for male infertility. The sperm was grown in a laboratory in Newcastle, England, from embryonic stem cells. Led by Professor Karim Nayernia, researchers developed a method of growing early-stage sperm from human embryonic stem cells by using retinoic acid, a vitamin A derivative. The team says cells became elongated and grew tails; other researchers pour cold water on results.
They found that about 20% of the cells produced early-stage sperm cells or spermatagonia and, after further culture, they could see a number of cells continue to split and divide.
The breakthrough came when some cells continued to grow, elongating and growing a tail which caused them to move, and forming recognisable sperm cells.
Nayernia, of Newcastle University and the North East England Stem Cell Institute (Nesci), described the cells as "fully mature, functional" sperm, which he called In Vitro Derived (IVD) sperm.
He said: "This is an important development as it will allow researchers to study in detail how sperm forms and lead to a better understanding of infertility in men - why it happens and what is causing it.
"This understanding could help us develop new ways to help couples suffering infertility so they can have a child which is genetically their own.
"It will also allow scientists to study how cells involved in reproduction are affected by toxins, for example why young boys with leukaemia who undergo chemotherapy can become infertile for life - and possibly lead us to a solution." The scientist, who created mice sperm six years ago using similar techniques, said that he used four criteria to determine whether the cells he produced were sperm. They were: the presence of proteins specific to sperm, one of which is located in the tail and very important for activating egg division; chromosome analysis, which showed that the sperm produced contained 23 chromosomes or half of the chromosome set - this is specific to sperm cells; the shape of the sperm, which has a tail and a head; and finally the movement of the sperm - "we could clearly see the movement of the sperm using the tail".
But his findings, published in the academic journal Stem Cells and Development, were met by a barrage of criticism by other scientists, who said further research was needed to determine the authenticity of his claims.
Dr Allan Pacey, from the University of Sheffield, England, said: "As a sperm biologist of 20 years' experience, I am unconvinced from the data presented in this paper that the cells ... produced by Professor Nayernia's group can be accurately called 'spermatozoa'." After watching a video clip of the cells, he said that while they possessed "some of the distinctive genetic features and molecular markers seen in sperm", there were other characteristics of human sperm that were not described in the paper, while the footage "did not have sufficient resolution" for him to properly assess how the sperm was moving, another indicative factor of sperm behaviour.
Professor Azim Surani, a specialist in physiology and reproduction at the University of Cambridge, England, said the cells should be tested to find out how they develop inside an animal egg and added: "These sperm-like cells made in a dish from embryonic stem cells are a long way from being authentic sperm cells." Professor Robin Lovell Badge, from the UK's Medical Research Council Institute of Medical Research, also questioned the findings, saying that "they need much better evidence that such in-vitro derived sperm are normal" but added that any progress by the team "will be very important for research" and "ultimately, although definitely not yet, fertility treatments".
Nayernia responded by saying that his research paper was clearly labelled a "proof of principle" which concludes that it is in its early stages and further research is needed. He said: "We are not claiming this research is complete but we are saying that we have found human sperm." Nayernia added that his findings would not lead to human beings being produced "in a dish", but were rather "a way of investigating why some people are infertile and the reasons behind it.
"If we have a better understanding of what's going on it could lead to new ways of treating infertility."

G8 leaders agreed Wednesday that 70-80 dollars was a fair price to pay for a barrel of oil, a spokeswoman for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told reporters.
"The G8 leaders... agreed that this price is fair," the spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said.
Ahead of the summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy had said they wanted the three-day gathering taking place in Italy to stabilise oil prices after a 12-month period which has seen the price for a barrel of crude fluctuate between 32 and 147 dollars.
However Timakova said Medvedev was not in favour of price regulation.
"The Russian president expressed his opinion that regulating these prices is hardly realistic," she said.

The world's most powerful leaders gathered in Italy on the eve of a G8 summit aimed at finding common ground on how to tackle the global economic crisis, climate change and turmoil in Iran.
"Everything is ready, I am totally serene," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told the Italian press as he prepared to welcome leaders of the group of eight (G8) industrialised nations and a host of emerging powers to the city of L'Aquila, devastated in April by an earthquake which killed nearly 300.
The build-up to the three-day summit has been marred both by increasingly lurid reports about Berlusconi's private life and also by safety fears in L'Aquila, north east of Rome, where aftershocks are still being felt.
Officials have drawn up plans to evacuate the leaders in the event of a tremor measuring over four points on the Richter scale.
Only last Friday, a 4.1 magnitude quake struck just one kilometre (half a mile) from the military academy where the gathering is to take place.
The G8 summit traditionally brings together leaders of the eight most industrialised nations -- Italy, the United States, Canada, Russia, Japan, Britain, France and Germany.
But much of the discussion over the course of the week will be expanded to include emerging powers such as China, India and Brazil.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is among the leaders who have already arrived and others were expected to land throughout Tuesday. US President Barack Obama will arrive on Wednesday morning at the end of a trip to Moscow.
The bulk of the summit is likely to focus on efforts to shore up the global economy since London hosted a G20 summit in April.
At the G20 summit in London, Obama and his peers agreed to commit one trillion dollars to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other global bodies to help struggling economies.
"It's a time when the leaders can get together and assess where they are in the economic recovery effort, what further steps need to be taken to restore the balance of economic growth, expand and restore exports, and create jobs," senior White House official Michael Froman said in a pre-summit briefing.
In their own mini summit on Monday designed to coordinate their position in L'Aquila, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said they would soon put forward proposals for talks to address the volatility of the oil market.
Sarkozy said the world could no longer tolerate "yo-yo" fluctuations while Brown said that it was unacceptable that the world's "most important commodity" was also "among the most volatile and unstable."
On climate change, Sarkozy and Brown said they would press their G8 partners to redouble efforts toward a deal on cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the Copenhagen conference in December.
The G8 has prepared a draft communique calling on global emissions to peak by 2020 and then be "substantially reduced" to cap the rise in temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who will also be in L'Aquila, plans to press the G8 to live up to previous pledges on climate change and aid for Africa, telling journalists "the time for good rhetoric and half measures is over."
According to a report in the Financial Times, the G8 will commit 12 billion dollars (8.6 billion euros) over three years for agricultural development in the developing world with the US and Japan stumping up most of the cash.
Western leaders have made clear that they plan to push the post-election crisis in Iran to the top of the agenda but China and Russia are cool towards internationalising it.
"The issue of Iran will be front and centre" of the G8, said Denis McDonough, one of Obama's top foreign policy aides.
"The Iranian authorities are trying to blame 'foreign powers' for their violent and abusive campaign against peaceful protesters," said Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director.
"The G8 needs to make it clear to Tehran that it cannot shift the blame and that human rights concerns will be at the forefront of future G8 engagement with Iran," he added.

A US missile strike pulverised a compound in a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud Tuesday, killing 16 foreign and local militants, security officials said.
The strike, carried out by a suspected unmanned US aircraft, destroyed a compound in the Zangara area of South Waziristan -- part of Pakistan's lawless, tribal belt on the Afghan border where Islamist militants are holed up.
One missile struck a Taliban hideout in the hamlet of Chinakai, killing foreign and local militants, said a Pakistani security official on condition of anonymity in a reference to suspected Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
A high-ranking official described the target as a former office of Mehsud, who has a five-million-dollar price on his head and a bounty of 615,000 dollars in Pakistan for allegedly masterminding multiple deadly bombings.
It was not immediately clear whether any high-value target was present at the time of the strike.
Suspected US attacks and Pakistani air strikes have increasingly targeted strongholds of Mehsud, described by the US State Department as a key Al-Qaeda facilitator in Pakistan's mountainous tribal region.
"Sixteen militants were killed and at least eight others wounded in the missile strike. Four among the dead are foreigners and the remaining are locals," one Pakistani security official told AFP.
The nationalities of the foreigners were not immediately known.
Another security official confirmed the number of casualties and said 12 bodies had already been pulled from under the rubble of the compound, which was destroyed in the strike.
The United States has put Pakistan at the heart of the fight against Al-Qaeda and has deployed 4,000 Marines against Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan under a major assault launched as part of a sweeping new war plan.
The United States military does not as a rule confirm drone attacks, but its armed forces and the CIA operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy unmanned aircraft in the region.
Pakistani troops have been pressing a two-month battle to dislodge Taliban insurgents in three northwest districts and have carried out air raids in South Waziristan ahead of a widely expected ground assault against Mehsud.
Two paramilitary soldiers were killed and nine security personnel wounded in three bomb attacks in North and South Waziristan, a security official said.
The military said Tuesday that four militants were killed, including a brother of Ibn-e-Amin, one of the most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley, but official death tolls have been impossible to confirm independently.
Washington has described Pakistan's rugged northwest tribal belt as the most dangerous place in the world for Americans, saying Al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels are plotting attacks on Western targets from militant hideouts there.
Pakistan publicly opposes US strikes, saying they violate its territorial sovereignty and deepen resentment among the populace. Since August 2008, at least 45 such strikes have killed around 450 people.
Mehsud has been blamed for some of Pakistan's worst attacks, including the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.
About 2,000 people have died in Islamist bombings across the country since government forces besieged a radical mosque in Islamabad July 2007.
Tuesday's attack came four days after another suspected US drone targeted the hideout of Noor Wali, a commander allied to Mehsud elsewhere in South Waziristan, and killed at least seven militants.

Every year the Dominica Olympic Committee joins the rest of the international community in celebrating the olympic spirit through the Olympic Day Run. This is in honour of the foundation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 23rd June 1894 in Paris, France. This year marked the second time that I have participated although this year it crept up on me like a thief in the night. Let me explain:

Newtown aka Harlem may be the mecca of football in Dominica but for sure Bath Estate is the future. And every year, we prove again and again why that is so with a crop of young talent that bag trophy after trophy in all leagues, be it the national or off season football leagues. If only we could be Cesseme Street this year, then all would be good.

Flowers got to me this week, so i'm posting shots of anthuriums as the pics of the week. A few years ago the Anthurium Late Blight demolished the local anthurium production, leaving all farmers/growers with nothing but empty shadehouses and farm lands. Anthuriums in Dominica are usually grown under shade netting or in forested areas where the plants can recieve shade during its growth period.

Existing anti-viral treatments are effective against swine flu, the World Health Organisation insisted on Wednesday, describing a reported case of resistance to Tamiflu as an isolated case.
“We are not changing our recommendations regarding the antivirals existing today,” a WHO spokeswoman told AFP.
The WHO’s comments came after Danish health officials on Monday reported the first case of resistance in an A(H1N1) patient treated with Tamiflu, an antiviral drug that is one of the key influenza treatments recommended
by the WHO.
The WHO spokeswoman described it as an “isolated case with no implications
on public health.” She also pointed out that instances of resistance to Tamiflu were previously documented for avian flu.Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche, which manufactures Tamiflu, had also said that the Danish case was expected and likely to be isolated.
“This was very much expected,” said David Reddy, Roche’s pandemic task
force leader.

Epidemiology and Disease Control Division at the Department of Health Services has started a media campaign to spread awareness about A (H1N1) in several parts of the country.
Dr Senendra Raj Upreti, director of the EDCD, said on Wednesday that they were coordinating with several NGOs for the campaign to battle against the influenza. “We will raise awareness among the people using TV commercials, radio jingles and brochures,” Upreti said.

Symptoms of Swine Flu
The symptoms of swine flu are usually like those of regular seasonal flu and include:
•headache
•chills
•cough
•fever
•loss of appetite
•aches
•fatigue
•runny nose
•sneezing
•watery eyes
•throat irritation
•nausea and vomiting
•diarrhea
•in people with chronic conditions, pneumonia may develop
Precautions Against Swine Flu
Good standard flu prevention techniques are recommended to protect yourself against swine flu:
•Get a regular seasonal flu vaccination. It might not help against this specific strain, but it won't hurt.
•Wash your hands frequently with soap and hot running water. If hot water is not available, use an alcohol-based hand gel.
•When you cough and sneeze, cover your mouth and nose. Wash your hands afterwards.
•Avoid being near others who might be sick.
•Stay home if you are sick, to avoid affecting others.
Precautions for Travellers
•Before you travel, find out what vaccines you will need and where to get them. Visit your family doctor or a travel health clinic at least six weeks before your departure date.
•If you get sick when you are travelling, seek medical assistance.
•If you are sick when you return to Nepal, or have been near someone who is, you must tell a customs or quarantine office, who will decide if you need further medical assessment.
•If you get sick after you return to Nepal, see a health care provider. Be sure to tell him/her the countries you visited, if you were sick while away and any medical care or treatment your received.

A Yemenia jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday as it tried to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros. Officials said one child was plucked alive from the sea.
There was no word on other survivors. At least three bodies were recovered, authorities said.
The crash comes two years after aviation officials reported faults with the aircraft, an Airbus 310 flying the last leg of a journey from Paris and Marseille to Comoros, with a stop in Yemen to change planes. Most of the passengers were from Comoros, a former French colony. Sixty-six on board were French nationals.
A child was rescued from the water after the crash, according to Rachida Abdullah, a police immigration officer who works at the operations center in the Comoros, and Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader.
Qader said he was told the child was 5 years old. Further details on the rescue and the child's condition were not immediately available.
Three bodies from the flight were retrieved along with debris from the plane, Abdullah said.
Qader said it was too early to speculate on the cause and the flight data recorder had not been found, but the wind was 40 miles per hour (61 kph) as the plane was landing in the middle of the night.
"The weather was very bad ... the wind was very strong," he said, adding the windy conditions were hampering rescue efforts.
The Yemenia plane was the second Airbus to crash into the sea in as many months. An Air France Airbus A330-200 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean May 31, killing all 228 people on board, as it flew from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
A crisis center once again was set up at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Many passengers were from the French city of Marseille, which has a large Comoros community.
"There is considerable dismay," said Stephane Salord, the consul general of the Comoros in the Provence-Alps-Cote d'Azur region of France. "These are families that, each year on the eve of summer, leave Marseille and the region to rejoin their families in the Comoros and spend their holidays."
In France, this week is the start of annual summer school vacations.
The Comoros is an archipelago of three main islands situated about 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) south of Yemen, between Africa's southeastern coast and the island of Madagascar. It is a former French colony of 700,000 people.
Gen. Bruno de Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy, the senior commander for French forces in the southern Indian Ocean, said the Airbus 310 crashed in deep waters about 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) north of the Comoran coast and 21 miles (34 kilometers) from the Moroni airport.
French aviation inspectors found a "number of faults" during a 2007 inspection of the plane that went down, French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said on i-Tele television Tuesday.
In Brussels, EU Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani said the airline had previously met EU safety checks and was not on the bloc's blacklist. But he said a full investigation was now being started amid questions why passengers were put on another jet in the Yemeni capital of San'a.
An Airbus statement said the plane that crashed went into service 19 years ago, in 1990, and had accumulated 51,900 flight hours. It has been operated by Yemenia (Yemen Airways) since 1999. Airbus said it was sending a team of specialists to the Comoros.
The A310-300 is a twin-engine widebody jet that can seat up to 220 passengers. There are 214 A310s in service worldwide with 41 operators.
Christophe Prazuck, French military spokesman, said a patrol boat and reconnaissance ship were being sent to the crash site as well a military transport plane. The French were sending divers as well as medical personnel, he said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy "expressed his deep emotion" about the crash and asked the French military to help in the rescue operation, particularly from the French islands of Mayotte and Reunion.
Yemenia airline officials say the 11-member crew was made up of six Yemenis, including the pilot, two Moroccans, one Indonesian, one Ethiopian and 1 Filipino. The officials asked that their named not be used because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The organisers of Michael Jackson's comeback tour dates in London have announced they would offer full ticket refunds following his death last week.
"AEG Live (UK) Ltd, concert promoters, announced that full refunds will be available to fans who purchased tickets through authorised agents for any of the 50 Michael Jackson 'This Is It' concerts which were to take place at The O2 Arena in London," AEG Live announced in a statement.
Jackson's fans from around the world had rushed to snap up tickets for the performances, which were due to start on July 13.
British media reports said about 50 million pounds (59 million euros, 83 million dollars) has been spent on 750,000 tickets.
Fans had also queued for hours to watch the reclusive star's final public appearance when he unveiled the gigs here in March, promising to play his classic tunes.
"The world lost a kind soul who just happened to be the greatest entertainer the world has ever known," said Randy Phillips, president of AEG Live.
"Since he loved his fans in life, it is incumbent upon us to treat them with the same reverence and respect after his death."
AEG Live said the refunds would include all ticket service charges and said all details would be available at www.michaeljacksonlive.com from July 1.
Fans who would prefer to keep the ticket as a piece of memorabilia will have the option to be sent the actual piece of paper, which AEG said had been "inspired and designed by Michael Jackson".
Trading website eBay, where tickets had fetched prices of up to 1,300 pounds, has already said that fans who had bought seats for the shows through its website would receive a refund.

Three cases of swine flu, pandemic influenza A H1N1, have been detected in Nepal. The announcement was made by the Health Ministry, Government of Nepal, on Monday.
The three infected victims comprise a 38-year old woman, a 44-year old man and an 8-year old boy, all from the same family. The trio arrived in Nepal from USA via Doha on June 21. They are currently undergoing treatment. The names have not been disclosed.