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As Winters Are Approaching, Brace Yourselves for Flu Season

November 10, 2014 By Germaine Hicks 1 Comment

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Healthcare experts revealed recently that Ebola isn’t the major fear among Americans. Winter is approaching and with it, flu season is also upon us. Experts declare that influenza virus signifies a considerably greater threat than anyone believe.

Healthcare workers remind the public that the flu is airborne, Ebola isn’t. Actually, influenza is among the list of America’s top ten killers. Way back in 2010, influenza and pneumonia triggered the dying of 54,000 people, whereas Ebola only has stated one life within the entire U.S.

Dr. Marc Bonin, Medical Director of the Emergency Department at The Good Samaritan Hospital, said, “The major problem with influenza is that, every year, it’s pattern varies in intensity, which causes it to be difficult to predict. It’s a vital for everyone to be vaccinated at the start of the growing season.”

These reasons are persuasive enough to get people vaccinated, that is still considered the primary protection against the flu virus.

Jennifer Health, the immunization nurse specialist with the Minnesota Department of Health, said, “We’re beginning to determine flu circulate. It’s time to get your influenza shot without a doubt.”

The 2013’s statistics reveal that, only 1 / 2 of all People in America got vaccinated and due to the current Ebola scare, government bodies fear that the significance of flu shots continues to be drowned out. As a result, they’re giving flu shot reminders to make certain that the public is accustomed about the importance of the disease.

Formerly, periodic cases have evolved and hospitalization was essential in a minimum of two cases. For instance, in Pennsylvania, authorities reported 184 flu cases in just one county. It’s also very difficult to calculate influenza pattern every year as circulating strains utter the seriousness of the condition.

In addition, Canada has also started preparing for flu season. Private wholesale suppliers have formerly initiated distributing flu shots in Alberta, where up to 50% of the province is scheduled to get the vaccination. Countrywide, 12m vaccines have already been ordered, though, their delivery is certain to present a distinctive challenge for public-health government bodies.

Dr. Marc Bonin said in a statement, “As per the CDC statistics, it takes approximately two days for antibodies to build up to an amount where a person is protected. We persuaded everyone out there to get vaccinated as soon as possible.”

A lot of patients reject flu shots after becoming ill despite having been vaccinated. It’s vital that you realize there are many viruses circulating, and many can mimic flu symptoms. Additionally, the vaccine does not offer 100% protection, however, it makes symptoms milder if an infection does occur, Dr. Deborah Lubitz, pediatrician with Good Samaritan Pediatrics stated.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2013, Alberta, America, CDC, Dr. Marc Bonin, ebola, flu, Flu Vaccination, Influenza, Jennifer Health, Pennsylvania, u.s, Winter season

Curiosity, Opportunity, but No View of Mars Sky Show

November 8, 2014 By Germaine Hicks Leave a Comment

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Researchers revealed this Friday in presenting initial scientific findings from the flyby, “A comet that zipped past Mars last month, dumped tons of dust into the planet’s atmosphere, providing a spectacular light show.”

A planetary scientist from University of Colorado, Nick Schneider, who was working on NASA’s Maven orbiter mission said that thousands of shooting stars — scraps of cometary dust burning up in the atmosphere — splashed across the Martian sky that night.

During NASA’s news conference, Dr. Schneider said, “It’s a very rare event in the entire history of humanity, and it would have been truly spectacular to the human eye.”

Robotic explorers limitations were highlighted, neither of NASA’s Martian rovers, Opportunity and Curiosity, successfully observed the shooting stars.

Dr. Schneider said, “We’ve got all these high-tech robots around, but I have to say, it might be the most sensitive scientific instrument of all to have a human lying outside with dark-adapted vision looking up at that sky.”

On 19th Oct, Opportunity was able to capture images of the comet, Siding Spring, as it passed within 87,000 miles of Mars. L. Green, director of NASA’s planetary sciences division, said, “Curiosity and Opportunity don’t capture movies. They just weren’t designed to be able to do that.”

Though, orbiting spacecraft vibrantly observed the effects of the dust. Maven Orbiter’s instruments, which unexpectedly arrived weeks before the comet, looked at the upper Martian atmosphere, and afterward, a very bright color of UV light appeared which was linked to magnesium. Other colors showed the presence of iron.

Dr. Schneider, the lead scientist for the Maven instrument that made those observations said, “These are not what you expect for atmospheric ingredients, but they are what you expect from comet dust.”

Another Maven instrument detected Sodium, nickel, manganese, potassium, zinc and chromium.

Magnesium is usually 10% by weight of comet dust, Dr. Schneider said, leading to an estimate of thousands of kilograms of dust showering on Mars in about an hour. If that material arrived in pieces the size of sand grains, “a meteor shower could be made,” he added.

A radar instrument fitted on the ESA’s Mars Express orbiter observed an additional layer of electrons in the atmosphere — the result of falling dust particles burning up. Donald A. Gurnett, a physics professor at the University of Iowa who is the lead investigator for the instrument said, “This is extremely unusual.”

Moreover, the researchers revealed that within just hours most of the changes in the Martian atmosphere dissipated.

The European Space Agency and NASA’s orbiters were positioned on the opposite side of Mars when the peak of comet dust arrived. Traveling at 126,000 miles per hour, even a small particle could have damaged or destroyed a spacecraft.

The observatory in Australia that first identified the comet in January 2013 and named it as ‘Comet Siding Spring’, which is evolved from the Oort Cloud — a ball of icy debris about a light-year away. Though, each year, numerous cloud comets fly through the inner solar system, by the time they are seen, there is not enough time to send a spacecraft to study them.

But the comets that have been studied up close, such as Halley’s Comet, are closer in and return to the inner solar system every few years or decades.

With Siding Spring and its close encounter with Mars — less than half the distance between Earth and the moon — the spacecraft was already there to conduct the first close-up observations of an Oort Cloud comet. The NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took the photographs that revealed — comet’s nucleus was smaller than the expected 1.2 miles, and it was rotating once every 8 hours.

In the meantime, the European Space Agency is concluding preparations for a high-risk, high-reward attempt to place a small lander on a comet next week.

Its Rosetta spacecraft arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August. On Wednesday, a lander named Philae with a weight of 220-pound is going to detach from Rosetta for a period of seven-hours to the surface of the 2.5-mile-wide comet, tugged down by its gravitational pull.

Once Philae is on its way, it has no way to adjust its trajectory, and the mission managers admit the attempt could go skewed if the lander ends up on a boulder or in a hole. Andrea Accomazzo, the flight director said, “We have to be a bit lucky.”

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: 2013, Chromium, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Comet 67P, comet dust, Curiosity, Donald A. Gurnett, Dr. Schneider, esa, European Space Agency, manganese, Mars, nasa, nickel, Oort Cloud, Opportunity, potassium, Rosetta spacecraft, Sodium, zinc

Global Burden Of Tuberculosis Increased Than Thought

October 22, 2014 By Rebecca McGhee Leave a Comment

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The World Health Organization (WHO) said today, the intensive efforts in the recent years in order to improve the collection and reporting of Tuberculosis (TB) data are ratcheting up the concern over the epidemic, exposing there are at least half a million more cases diagnosed than previously estimated.

As per the WHO’s ‘Global Tuberculosis Report 2014’around 9 million people were diagnosed TB in 2013 and 1.5 million died.

The report also revealed, the morality rate of the Tuberculosis is declining and has dropped by 45% since 1990, while the number of people developing TB has decreased by an average of 1.5% per year. WHO stated that around 37 million lives have been saved with the timely diagnosis and effective treatment.

According the World Health Organizations statistic, an estimated 1.1 million, which is 13% of 9 million who diagnosed TB in 2013 were HIV positive. Moreover, the number of deaths among TB HIV positive people declining from 540,000 in 2004 to 360,000 in 2013.

Multidrug-Resistant TB Crisis Continues

Mario Raviglione, Managing director of the Global TB Programme, WHO stated, “With the concerted efforts by WHO, by countries and multiple partners who invested in national surveys and regular surveillance efforts helped us in providing authentic data and bringing us nearer to understanding the true burden of TB.”

As per the findings of the report, the global health community has made “considerable” efforts responding to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), yet it remains “far from sufficient.”

World Health Organization noted that the MDR-TB “crisis” still continues. Globally, around 3.5% of all people who developed TB in 2013 had MDR-TB. Some countries have “severe epidemics” of MDR-TB and “alarmingly low” treatment success rates, the report notes.

In addition, extensively drug-resistant TB has now been reported in 100 countries.

Way back in 2009, WHO called for a global access for the diagnosis and treatment of MDR-TB, which eventually contributed to a huge increase in cases diagnosed and treated. 136,000 MDR-TB cases were detected in 2013, up from 52,825 in 2009, and 97,000 people were started on treatment, up from 30,500 in 2009.

WHO stated, “though the number of patients treated has increased three-fold since 2009, at least 39,000 patients, diagnosed with this form of TB, were not being treated last year and globally only 48% of patients were cured.”

Karin Weyer, PhD, WHO coordinator for laboratories, diagnostics, and drug resistance stated, “The efforts that has been made in overcoming MDR-TB has been hard won and must be strengthened. Containing and reversing the epidemic requires immediate and sustained efforts by all stakeholders.”

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 1.5 milllion died, 1990, 2013, 9 million, Global Tuberculosis Report 2014, HIV Positive, MDR-TB, Multidrug-Resistant TB, TB, tuberculosis, WHO, World Health Organization

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