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.

I've Been There: The Chickenpox Horror

Haven't had the shingles yet? You have got to read this!

It was the worst time of my dermatologically devirginized skin! It started somewhere around October of 2008. It was near the final term at school and the disease forced me to be absent for almost 3 weeks.