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Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Despite the broad range of treatment options available and all the recent advances in medical technology, the five year survival rate for those diagnosed early is only 8% and this drops to 3% for those diagnosed at an advanced stage. This type of cancer is difficult to diagnose and is often overlooked, usually discovered when it’s advanced to a virtually incurable stage.

So what is pancreatic cancer? Like all cancers, it begins when normal cells mutate and stop their normal functioning. They begin to grow at an uncontrollable rate and start taking nutrients and oxygen from the body, acting independently of the rest of the body and avoiding the usual mechanisms the body uses to maintain health. As the number of cancerous cells increase, they form tumors that can eventually spread to other parts of the body. When pancreatic tumors advance to a large enough size, they begin to impact the function of other organs. This can result in digestive problems as the stomach begins to produce too much acid, as well as issues with the liver and bile production.

Due to the fact that pancreatic cancer is so difficult to diagnose, it makes sense to know the signs and symptoms to help with early detection if you or your loved ones are unfortunate enough to encounter this severe disease. Remember, the key to maintaining a healthy body is not only exercise and nutrition, but making sure you pay attention to what your body is telling you on a day-to-day basis. If you experience any of these symptoms, consult with a physician. 

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Dengue is caused by the four serotypes of dengue virus (1-4). An infection with one of the serotypes does not protect an individual against the other serotypes and multiple infections of dengue virus can put individuals at greater risk for dengue hemorrhagic fever.

The symptoms of dengue fever are:

• high fever
• severe headache
• joint pain
• rash
• mild bleeding

Dengue hemorrhagic fever includes a fever for 2-7 days followed by the capillaries in the body being permeable and causing leakage. This can lead to shock and possibly death.

Dengue is endemic in 100 countries in Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, Africa, and the Caribbean including parts of Mexico. Arizona has only had travel-associated dengue cases.

Arizona 5 year median: 14 cases

Transmission

Transmission occurs when an infected Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquito bites an individual. 

Transmission can also occur from blood transfusions or organ donation from an infected individual. 

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Ebola virus disease is a serious, often fatal condition in humans and nonhuman primates. Ebola is one of several viral hemorrhagic fevers, caused by infection with a virus of the Filoviridae family, genus Ebolavirus.

The fatality rates of Ebola vary depending on the strain. For example, Ebola-Zaire can have a fatality rate of up to 90 percent while Ebola-Reston has never caused a fatality in humans.

The infection is transmitted by direct contact with the blood, body fluids, and tissues of infected animals or people. Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. Ebola virus disease (EVD) is often characterized by the abrupt onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat.  Ebola tends to spread quickly through families and friends as they are exposed to infectious secretions when caring for an ill individual. The time interval from infection with Ebola to the onset of symptoms ranges from 2-21 days. 

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus that can infect almost anyone. Once infected, your body retains the virus for life. Most people don't know they have CMV because it rarely causes problems in healthy people.

But if you're pregnant or have a weakened immune system, CMV is cause for concern. A woman who develops an active CMV infection during pregnancy can pass the virus to her baby, who might then experience signs and symptoms. For people with compromised immunity, especially due to organ transplantation, CMV infection can be fatal. CMV spreads from person to person through body fluids, such as blood, saliva, urine, semen and breast milk. There's no cure for the virus. However, medications can help treat newborns and people with weak immune systems.

Symptoms

Most people infected with CMV who are otherwise healthy experience few if any signs and symptoms. People at greater risk of signs and symptoms of CMV include:

• Newborns infected with CMV before birth (congenital CMV).
• Infants who become infected during birth or shortly afterward (perinatal CMV). This group includes babies infected through breast milk.
• People with weakened immune systems, for example due to organ transplant or HIV infection.

Babies

Most babies with congenital CMV appear healthy at birth.

A few babies with congenital CMV who appear healthy at birth can develop signs over time — sometimes not for months or years after birth. The most common of these late-occurring signs are hearing loss and developmental delay. A small number of babies may also develop vision problems.

Babies with congenital CMV who are sick at birth tend to have significant signs and symptoms, including:

• Premature birth
• Low birth weight
• Yellow skin and eyes (jaundice)
• Enlarged and poorly functioning liver
• Purple skin splotches or a rash or both
• Abnormally small head (microencephaly)
• Enlarged spleen
• Pneumonia
• Seizures

People with weakened immunity

If your immune system is weakened, you might experience more-serious signs and symptoms affecting your:

• Eyes
• Lungs
• Liver
• Esophagus
• Stomach
• Intestines
• Brain

Otherwise healthy adults

Most people infected with CMV who are otherwise healthy experience few if any signs or symptoms. When first infected, some adults may have symptoms similar to infectious mononucleosis, including:

• Fatigue
• Fever
• Sore throat
• Muscle aches

CMV mononucleosis is less likely than infectious mononucleosis to cause enlarged lymph nodes and spleen.

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Symptoms

• Most people infected with chikungunya virus will develop some symptoms.
• Symptoms usually begin 3–7 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito.
• The most common symptoms are fever and joint pain.
• Other symptoms may include headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, or rash.
• Chikungunya disease does not often result in death, but the symptoms can be severe and disabling.
• Most patients feel better within a week. In some people, the joint pain may persist for months.
• People at risk for more severe disease include newborns infected around the time of birth, older adults (≥65 years), and people with medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or heart disease.
• Once a person has been infected, he or she is likely to be protected from future infections.  

  Treatment

  • There is no vaccine to prevent or medicine to treat chikungunya virus.
  • Treat the symptoms:
    • Get plenty of rest.
    • Drink fluids to prevent dehydration.
    • Take medicine such as acetaminophen (Tylenol®) or paracetamol to reduce fever and pain.
    • Do not take aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS until dengue can be ruled out to reduce the risk of bleeding).
    • If you are taking medicine for another medical condition, talk to your healthcare provider before taking additional medication 

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Adenoviruses can cause a wide range of illnesses such as

• Common cold
• Sore throat
• Bronchitis (a condition that occurs when the airways in the lungs become filled with mucus and may spasm, which causes a person to cough and have shortness of breath)
• Pneumonia (infection of the lungs)
• Diarrhea
• Pink eye (conjunctivitis)
• Fever
• Bladder inflammation or infection
• Inflammation of stomach and intestines (gastroenteritis)
• Neurologic disease (conditions that affect the brain and spinal cord)

Adenoviruses rarely cause serious illness or death. However, infants and people with weakened immune systems, or existing respiratory or cardiac disease, are at higher risk of developing severe illness from an adenovirus infection.  Adenoviruses are a group of viruses that can infect the membranes (tissue linings) of the respiratory tract, eyes, intestines, urinary tract, and nervous system. They account for about 10% of fever-related illnesses and acute respiratory infections in kids and are a frequent cause of diarrhoea. Adenoviral infections affect babies and young children much more often than adults. Childcare centers and schools sometimes have multiple cases of respiratory infections and diarrhea caused by adenovirus.

Adenoviral infections can occur at any time of the year, but:

• respiratory tract problems caused by adenovirus are more common in late winter, spring, and early summer
• conjunctivitis (pinkeye) and pharyngoconjunctival fever caused by adenovirus tend to affect older kids, mostly in the summer

Adenoviral infections can affect children of any age, but most occur in the first years of life — and most kids have had at least one before age 10. There are many different types of adenoviruses, so some kids can have repeated adenoviral infections.

Signs and Symptoms

Depending on which part of the body is affected, the signs and symptoms of adenoviral infections vary:

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Dear smileband viewers, 

Indeed, even a good ways off, clearly something didn't add up about the fertilizer heap behind one of Brad Moline's long white stables. Moline, 37, tops six feet, yet the heap overshadowed him.

 It was 30 feet wide and 100 feet in length, and the fertilizer was brittle and rich. Be that as it may, its inclining sides were studded with bones.

There were seven different heaps like this on the Moline family ranch, in northwest Iowa, enough to fill three football fields up to the principal column of seats. 

Dyed pelvic peaks and the bumpy finishes of shins jabbed up from the humus close by a whole wishbone. They were everything that was left of the 56,000 turkeys that Moline and his more established sibling, Award, and their dad, John, were raising last May, when avian flu showed up on their ranch. 

At the point when they hit the sack one evening, their turkeys were sound; the following morning, very nearly 100 were dead and hundreds more were panting for breath. 

Large number of birds kicked the bucket in days.

"I'd never seen anything like it," Moline said when I visited him last October. "My dad, who is 70 years of age, he'd never seen anything like it, and a few more established family members that have been around this region for quite a while, they'd seen nothing like it. It moved through the homestead like an out of control train. 

The Molines had been fearing seasonal influenza for a really long time, watching it advance across the state and trusting their confined area, outside a humble community called Manson, would ward the sickness off. All things being equal, following requests from the US Branch of Horticulture, the family was expected to kill every one of their birds, even those that were not showing side effects, forfeiting them as a firebreak to hold the infection back from spreading. 

They stacked the a great many corpses in 200-foot windrows of wood shavings and straw so the intensity of rot would consume the infection with extreme heat. 

They turned the heaps with work vehicles, scoured and hazed and broadcasted their stables, turned the heaps once more, cleaned the vacant structures to look at for disease and held up long stretches of isolation to procure an all-unmistakable from the U.S.D.A. furthermore, the state's Farming Division.

Iowa was the most awful hit state in the episode, and the Molines' ranch was the first permitted to restock once it was finished. 

At the point when I visited, there were 28,800 turkeys in four of their horse shelters — 11-week-old birds, reedy and at the midpoint of their lives — and another 28,000 fresh debuts twittering in the brooder stable, where they spend their initial not many weeks. 

Maybe the staggering influenza had never been there — with the exception of the additional manure, however much they would have amassed in 10 years of ordinary cultivating. It has been a year since the bird influenza tore through the Midwest: enough time for destroyed homesteads to cash their repayment checks and start purchasing substitution birds; at the discount cost of eggs, which multiplied, to slide back to ordinary; for public consciousness of the episode, the most horrendously terrible creature sickness scourge in US history, to scatter. 

Be that as it may, among the poultry ranchers who persevered through this season's virus, and others observing somewhere else in the country, there is an unavoidable disquiet, on the grounds that following a time of examination, government scholastic researchers actually can't say without a doubt the way in which their properties became tainted. 

In spite of their own endeavors to solidify their protections, and new government intends to help them, it is conceivable that poultry ranchers are not prepared for this season's virus to return among the US's billions of chickens; and that farmers and pork makers may be similarly ill-equipped assuming a new sickness exploded among the country's 92 million meat and dairy cows or 68 million pigs. 

Making arrangements for pestilences, creature or human, is generally founded on what an illness did the last time. It is substantially more challenging to foresee what an infection will do straightaway.

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Cystitis is an inflammation of the bladder which is typically caused by a bladder infection.

UTIs happen when the urinary tract becomes infected, usually by bacteria.

Anyone can get a UTI, but they’re particularly common in women, and especially common after sex.

A typical case of cystitis starts after sex, when a woman finds she needs to wee more than usual, and that going for a wee is difficult – it is slow to start and the stream is reduced.

As the infection progresses, it can lead to pain and burning when going for a wee and a general feeling of discomfort around the 

What are the signs and symptoms of cystitis?

The main symptoms of cystitis include:

• Pain, burning or stinging when you urinate
• Needing to go more often and urgently than normal
• Urine that’s dark, cloudy or strong smelling
• Pain low down in your tummy
• Feeling generally unwell, achy, sick and tired. 

  What causes cystitis?

  Many things can cause a UTI but most cases are thought to happen after bacteria from your skin or bowel gets into your bladder through your urethra.
  The causes can include:
  • Having sex
  • Bacteria from after going to the toilet (if you wipe back to front)
  • Inserting a tampon
  • Inserting a urinary catheter (a tube used to drain the bladder through the urethra)
  • Using a diaphragm as a form of contraception 

    How is cystitis treated?

    Women don’t always need to go to the doctors if they have cystitis, as cases typically clear up by themselves after a few days.
    However, you can still take these steps without the need to see your GP:
    • Take paracetamol or ibuprofen
    • Drink plenty of water
    • Hold a hot water bottle on your tummy or between your thighs
    • Avoid having sex
    If you have recurring episodes of cystitis, if you are pregnant and have the symptoms, then you should see your GP.
    Likewise, if your symptoms don’t clear up in a few days or if you believe your child has it, then you should get things checked out by a professional. 

    Is there a cure for cystitis?

    Many people find they can get rid of cystitis at home within a few days.
    If you decide to take your condition to the GP, they may be able to give you an antibiotic prescription.
    However, you should not believe the commonly-held myth that cranberries can help fight cystitis.

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Perform a quick online search for “ear candling,” and you’ll be bombarded with over 600,000 results immediately. You’ll find claims ranging from “candling cures a wide number of diseases,” as well as removing ear wax, all the way to warnings about how dangerous and ineffective the process can be.

Ear candling, sometimes referred to as simply “candling” or “ear coning,” is a common therapeutic practice used in natural health centers all over the world. Practitioners will often recommend this procedure to clients with hearing loss, vertigo, tinnitus, cold/flu symptoms and a long list of other symptoms.

However, the FDA in the United States, as well as similar organizations in other countries, have outlawed the use of ear candling to claim any sort of medical benefit and cautioned the public to “just say no.” 

That sounds a little mind-boggling, don’t you think. 

How Ear Candling Is Supposed to Work

An ear candle is a hollow cone created from unbleached fabric, usually linen, soaked in paraffin, beeswax or soy wax. They range in length, averaging about a foot long.

First, you’ll be instructed to lie on your side and make sure your face and outer ear are protected by something like a plate. It will have a hole cut in the middle around the candle to avoid burns from wax drippings. Your practitioner should gently insert the tapered end of the candle into your ear canal at a 90 degree angle from the ear.

For 10 to 15 minutes, you’ll enjoy the pleasant, crackling sound of the burning candle as the person burning it cuts off the end of the cloth every two inches or so. When about four inches remain, the candle is removed from the ear and then blown out.

Turn over. Repeat. Then, look at the disgusting gunk that came out of your ears. How could all of that stuff have been in my head, you ask?

Supposedly, ear candling creates a vacuum inside the ear in order to draw out ear wax. Because of the buildup in the ear canal seen on the burned candle, it’s easy to see why people prescribe ear candles for things such as: 

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Research and clinical experience show that insomnia is associated with reduced quality of life as well as depression. In turn, depression can lead to sleep problems. Insomnia can also lead to feelings of anxiety, frustration, hopelessness, exhaustion, and an inability to concentrate.

The more we look for sleep, the less we find it. Let go of the pursuit and focus on doing what you can to improve the situation.

Calm Your Mind

You can take actions to improve the quality of your nighttime rest. In the moments of your sleeplessness and distress, you can work to calm your mind and body through the use of conscious relaxation, cognitive therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy techniques. I recommend that you first consult your therapist, psychiatrist, or doctor to ensure that you have no psychological issues, medical complications, or medication interactions that could be causing your difficulties with sleep.

When it comes to sleep hygiene, studies show that a bedtime routine that includes a period of time to unwind can be effective. A common practice is to turn off all electronics after 9:00 pm and then get dressed and washed up for the night. Once ready for bed, do a relaxation exercise and spend 30 minutes reading a book before finally closing your eyes. If you are still struggling to sleep, try to reduce the amount of time you toss and turn by getting out of bed and going to a quiet, comfortable spot in another room or area of the bedroom to read or do more relaxation exercises.

Focus on the Body

If you have consistent trouble calming your mind, it can be more effective to focus on the body first. You can use relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, and somatic therapy techniques. One example of these techniques is to focus on your breath and body rather than on negative thought patterns and frustration. To do so, you breathe slowly in through your nose and out through your mouth. This simple exercise will automatically slow down your breathing and help your body relax. Then, after a few breaths, breathe through your nose for both the inhalation and exhalation, and begin to follow your abdomen’s rise and fall. This is called “riding the wave” of your breathing. Even if you do not fall asleep, your body is at rest.

To work with the mind, cognitive therapy and DBT techniques can be effective in challenging negative thinking and inserting reaffirming statements. A challenging statement could be, “Even though I am struggling to fall asleep, I can work to calm my mind and body the best I can.” Or, “I am struggling with sleep, and it will not last forever. I can be patient.” You want to validate your feelings, state the facts, and reassure yourself that you are doing the best that you can. Keep a log of your sleep activity, helpful ways you cope with negative thinking, and your relaxation exercises — all helpful for you as well as your health care professionals.