Smileband health topics

Article by  idaz medical, 

chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to animals and people by insect vectors found only in the Americas. Transmission commonly occurs in rural areas in Mexico, Central America and South America, and rarely in some southern US states.

The acute phase of the infection lasts 2-3 months and is followed by the chronic phase that without successful antiparasitic will be lifelong. Approximately 20-30% of individuals with chronic T. cruzi infections will develop clinical disease.

All cases that have been reported in Arizona were considered to be travel-associated.

Arizona 5 year median: 1 case

Transmission

Transmission of the parasite Typanosoma cruzi is generally from the feces of an infected triatomine bugs (kissing bugs). Transmission can also occur from mother to child, through blood transfusions or organ transplantation, consumption of uncooked food contaminated with feces from an infected bug or accidental laboratory exposure. Incubation period is 5-14 days after bite from infected triatomine bug. Isolation Precautions

Standard precautions are recommended in healthcare settings. 

Prevention for Patients
Reduce contact with the triatomine bugs by improving housing conditions and spraying insecticide.

Public Health Actions
Patients should be advised to not donate blood.

Information about symptoms, exposure to kissing bugs, and travel history are important to help find out how the individual might have been exposed.

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Smileband general news

Article by Sam greenhill, 

More women came forward last night to accuse former Harrods tycoon Mohamed Al-Fayed of sexual harassment. The three new women, whose claims were broadcast last night on Channel 4 News, spoke out after a Dispatches documentary last December in which three other women made similar allegations.

Billionaire Mr Al-Fayed, 89, who owns the Paris Ritz Hotel and is a former owner of Fulham Football Club, was reported by Channel 4 News to have denied ‘false’ allegations made by a woman whose complaint to the police when she was a teenager was dropped.

Last night the complainant, identified as ‘Woman A’, told Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman she visited Harrods with her mother in 2007 when Mr Al-Fayed offered her a job when she was a teenager. She said: ‘It was so surreal. 

My meetings would be often, once a week in his offices, upstairs in Harrods, top floor.’ She said the tycoon gave her £300 in £50 notes and showered her with gifts including perfume and a designer handbag.

After a few months, she said he came into the boardroom one day and tried to kiss her and make unwanted advances.

Woman A said she stopped eating and ran away from home, but eventually confided in her parents. 

They took her to the police. After a thorough investigation, the Crown Prosecution Service decided the evidence was conflicting and not sufficiently reliable, and dropped the case. Mr Al-Fayed has always maintained his innocence.

Channel 4 News also spoke to ‘Woman B’, now in her 40s, who started working at Harrods a quarter of a century ago. She said Mr Al-Fayed made her feel uncomfortable during a business trip to his Ritz hotel in Paris.

She said: ‘We all went to have dinner in the restaurant…he made a few comments about sex and boyfriends and things.

‘He wanted to dance with each of us. I danced with him. I felt really uncomfortable.

‘He was kissing my face. He asked if I liked his kisses. He kept squeezing me and kissing my forehead, and even at one point he kissed my nose. And I remember feeling very uncomfortable and a bit frozen. <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->

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Smileband general news

Article by harry Pettit, 

Cryogenics could be our best chance at cheating death. That's according to one expert, who believes we could soon revive frozen bodies.

Dennis Kowalski, 49, President of the Michigan-based Cryonics Institute, claims humans could oen day be revived from a cryogenic state, and stem cell therapy could help them bring them back to an even younger age.

He also suggests that the first human frozen by cryonics could be revived within the next 50 to 100 years. The Michigan-based cryonics Institute, is a non-profit organisation that offers human freezing services for $28,000 per person (£20,200).

Kowalski, who also works as a firefighter, paramedic and paramedics teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, says that a lot of things that weren't possible will soon be possible with regards to cryonics.

He told the MailOnline that if reviving cryogenically frozen people is not possible, at least we are learning.

Around 2,000 people have put their names down to be cryogenically frozen by Mr Kowalski's institute and more than 100 pets and 160 people have already been frozen at the their laboratory.

'After cardiac arrest, you have around 5 minutes to half an hour to revive someone,' says Mr Kowalski.

'But it depends on temperature and how long they were alive for.

'We're finding that when you cool people down you have more time,' he said.

Mr Kowalski said that his work is an extension of stem cell research, and that stem cells could be injected into cryogenically frozen patients to help repair damaged cells. <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->

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Smileband health topics

Article by idaz medical, 

 Fifth disease, also called erythema infectiosum, is a mild rash illness caused by parvovirus B19. It is more common in children than adults.

Symptoms may include:

• fever
• runny nose
• headache
• "slapped cheek" rash on the face
• rash on rest of body
• polyarthropathy syndrome.

Some adults may only have painful joints and no other symptoms. The joint pain usually lasts 1 to 3 weeks, but it can last for months or longer.

Generally, there are not serious complications but those with weakened immune systems may have chronic anemia which could require medical treatment.

Transmission 
Transmission occurs through contact with respiratory secretions from an infected individual.

Transmission can also occur through blood or blood products. A pregnant woman who is infected with parvovirus B19 can pass the virus to her baby.

The incubation period is 4 to 14 days.

Lab Tests & Specimen Info
Healthcare providers can often diagnose fifth disease just by seeing "slapped cheek" rash on a patient's face.

Test*	Specimen
PCR	Whole Blood
IgG/IgM Serology (IgM antibodies are detectable 2 weeks after exposure, IgG antibodies are usually created 18 to 24 days after exposure)	Serum

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Smileband health topics

Article by IDAZ. 

Sporotrichosis is a fungal infection caused by Sporothrix schenckii. Cutaneous infections are the most common form of infection but pulmonary infections can occur. The symptoms of a cutaneous infection can include a small painless nodule that may appear on the fingers, hands, or arms where the fungus entered the body. The nodule may become larger and look like an open sore or ulcer. Infections may become disseminated to other parts of the body include bones, joints, and CNS but this usually only occurs in individuals with weakened immune systems.

 

The fungus lives in sphagnum moss, hay or other plant materieral.

 

Transmission

Transmission occurs when the fungus enters the skin through a cut or puncture in the skin.

Sporotrichosis is not spread person to person.

Incubation period is 7 to 30 days.

Lab Tests & Specimen Info

Test*	Specimen
Culture	Drainage (pus), Abscess Drainage, Skin Biopsy

 Isolation Precautions

Standard precautions are recommended in healthcare settings. 

Prevention for Patients

• Wearing protective clothing such as gloves and long sleeves when handing wires, rose bushes, bales of hay, pine seedlings or other material that may cause minor cuts
• Avoid contact with sphagnum moss 

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Smileband general news

Article by Adam shergold, 

Fiorentina captain Davide Astori has died in his sleep ahead of their serie A league fixture against Udinese on Sunday. Astori, a 31-year-old Italy international central defender, had been with the club since 2016 having previously played for Milan, Cagliari and Roma.

He had 14 international caps with Italy and was a member of the squad that played in the 2013 FIFA  Confederations Cup.

All of Sunday's Serie A fixtures have been postponed as a mark of respect. One report from Italy said his team-mates broke down his door when Astori failed to come down for breakfast or answer his phone.

'The lad did not turn up to the team breakfast at 9.30am and he was usually the first to arrive,' said Fiorentina spokesman Arturo Mastronardi.

'So they went to check on him. Davide was sleeping in a room on his own. We still don't know the cause of death. The Magistrate came here and the body has been taken for an autopsy, which I think will be conducted today. We have no further details.

'The last to see Davide was Marco Sportiello. Some players sleep in single rooms, some in doubles.

'His family is from Bergamo, so his parents were alerted by telephone, whereas his partner was visited in person in Florence by some of the directors who were in the city.

'The team will return to Florence today with a charter plane.' 

Astori leaves a wife Francesca and two-year-old daughter. <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->

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Smileband general news

This Article is by Kieron southern, 

This is the shocking moment a knife-wielding thug filmed himself chasing a terrified rival through the streets - before posting the footage online. The knifeman claimed to have stabbed the victim in the head and neck and the video was accompanied by three laughing emojis.

It is the latest in a chilling trend which sees gangs film themselves carrying out sickening attacks on rivals before posting them on social media. A 16-year-old boy told the paper: 'Everyone's posting s**t online now. Man does it for a reason. To show man what he's done. It sends a message.

'So if there's a stabbing it's sometimes filmed in the moments before. Man here got stabbed in the head but it couldn't be put on Insta because it may have shown knifeman's ID.

'So instead he shows what he's got in the moments before. This is the tip of the iceberg. There's vids being posted all the time. One commented urging youngsters to stop the violence and described their shock at watching the footage.

Another asked what the world is coming to.

Other videos posted include footage of a boy being brutally beaten by a hooded gang member and a given roup of youths punching a boy to the floor before kicking him in the face.

Britain is currently struggling with a knife crime epidemic and according to official figures the number of attacks rose by 21% during last year.

The Office of National Statistics say there were 37,443 recorded knife offences in the 12 months up to September 2017. <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->

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