Ebola: 10 Things To Know About The Virus Disease

Alarming news has struck everyone this week about an outbreak of a viral disease in West Africa. According to World Health Organization (WHO), the disease has been spreading faster than efforts to control it. 

The virus disease kills 90% of those infected and. However, based on the reported number of lives lost which shows that failure to contain it could be catastrophic, as stated by WHO head Dr. Margaret Chan, the virus disease could be stopped if well managed.

What are the things we need to know about this virus disease? Let’s start first with this list of ten important facts.

5 Diabetes Facts The Good-to-Know Ones

Diabetes or Diabetes Mellitus DM has been a global epidemic basically due to people’s diet, and inactive lifestyle. DM happens when the human organ, the pancreas, is unable to produce any or enough insulin (a hormone responsible for controlling glucose in the body), or the body’s cells are not responding properly to the insulin produced. Know more about his disease with these 5 facts about diabetes.

Diabetes: Not that kind of sweetness you would long for

There are people who adorably consume sweets a lot they are labelled as having a “sweet tooth”. With this, some people might scold them saying they might get diabetic because of sugar rush and stuff. Do you really think this is the case? What really causes diabetes and what makes a person diabetic? Is eating too much sweets really lead to the disease? Get the answers on frequently asked questions about diabetes here, and know why there is totally nothing sweet about it.

Smoking, Smokers, and the Harmed

Smoking is one of those vices that are really too easy for some people to get influenced in doing yet too difficult for most to stop doing. If smoking cessation is not alarming enough, the harm that it brings about to the people around a smoker is just too insufferable. What is worse is that a smoker might not even be aware of how he affects surrounding innocents, or worst is that he knows, but still pretends that he does not and still goes on belching like a pollutant automobile. The bottom point here is, smoking is not healthy, and this post will tell you the reasons why. 

Queries on Chlamydial Infection

Here is a brief overview on the most common bacterial STI in humans.

Promiscuous individuals be warned, there are a number of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) out there for you to most probably harvest if you are not being a bit smart enough to be safe or let’s say shift to celibacy. Hence, individuals who are sexually active and have multiple sex partners are especially at risk for this disease. Moving on, one of these STIs is the so called Chlamydia, also known as “the clam”, or “gooey stuff”. The latter actually originated from the cloudy mucus or watery discharges from the genitals of infected people.

How Well Do You Know Syphilis?

Know a lot more about one of the most common STDs worldwide.

Syphilis is the third most common sexually transmitted disease (STD), caused by treponema pallidum. It is known to be a multi-organ system disease. Its other names are "pox", "lues", or "bad blood disease". Its incubation period is usually10-70 days with an average of 21 days; of course this is after contact. Disease transmission is acquired through having sexual contact, and/or through blood transmission. It could also be congenital in such cases of placental transmission which happens after 5 months of gestation. But in reported cases, sexual transmission is still rather rampant.

How do you peel?

Ways to save your skin by avoiding a raw peel.

I live in a tropical country where it’s sunny almost every day of the entire year. I have got to tell, there is nothing more excruciatingly painful than a sun burn, especially when you are peeling. Most people might say that they are used to high temperatures, well if you came from deep way down let’s say Satan’s lair, then maybe you are used to be exposed under the blazing heat. It is not healthy and would be extremely harmful to your skin’s health. Anyone can get sunburn from the merciless sun’s rays, added by the fact that the Earth is suffering from “global warming”. The weather nowadays is crazy. It gets very hot during the day; you might even ponder on applying an SPF100 everyday if possible.