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Article written by eve summons, 

The weather may be glorious – but a plague of unwanted guests is infiltrating the country, eating us alive and causing havoc for the tennis players at Wimbledon, who this week had to contend with the consequences of flying ants’ mating rituals. While most bites and stings are relatively harmless, some bug attacks can be far more serious. Bites from blood-sucking horseflies – numbers of which have rocketed in recent weeks – can land you in hospital and even lead to potentially fatal sepsis if they become infected.

So how can you protect yourself? Here, Professor James Logan, head of disease control at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, gives his expert verdict… wasp and bee stings inject venom into the skin, causing red and itchy swelling. The most common bee – the honey bee – leaves its stinger inside its target’s skin after striking.

About five per cent of the population are allergic to bee or wasp venom, resulting in an anaphylactic reaction. It can happen even if you’ve been stung before and have not reacted.

Treatment: Remove the bee stinger to prevent further venom being released into the skin. Take a credit card or fingernail and swipe sideways along the skin, catching the stinger. Do not grab and pull it out – this will squeeze out further venom. After talking to your GP or pharmacist, take antihistamines and use ice packs to stop the itching. 

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Smileband general news

Article written by Christopher Stanley, 

In life you get people that think everything drops in to there hands in life, they don’t need to work a day in life but they think that can involve them self in the best things in life. 

These people have a word for everything in society that gives them the description of self satisfaction and wellbeing. 

Everything has a motive of work unless you win the lottery and get rich, This is called luck!!! which is 1 out of a 100. The run in life is a path I see so much people try to obtain out in society. 

People are all ways knocking on the door to open and these are the people who should have the most respect to out element of being apart of the human cycle in life. One day tells the next from another that drives its full given motive to take a turn for the good of the worst. 

It’s a tail of the fortune teller that reads it all like a scientific global energy that form within a circle of trust that decides its purpose within its given cause, hold your self as a hunter that strike when the weather calls its name. 

People that don’t see them self as a lost cause for help or wanting something which they can’t have which is not mutual to them in life. A word of trust is a thought of acceptance from one who wants to accept the gift or the trust that is a truth aspect within life.

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Smileband general news

Article written by Christopher Stanley, 

Music has infected society in a big way, it’s has got to most corners of the world with the expression of volition through guns and knife crime, the world is not going to become a better place it is going to be worse for the taking, it’s is killing black culture by the minute through wanting to be famous. 

It’s uses words of description that aims racism to the black nation through words said in music. When I was a child this was not aloud on Tv or radio based on its form of language that is spoken. 

I can relate to both rap and normal sense of understanding that states it’s going to get worst for the bad. A English rapper called English frank makes that clear in his music that it’s killing society in every description that we state and it’s going to get bad. 

It’s a human bug that would lead to the worst hate for a culture of being black as rap comes from the black culture that drives full negatively expression through other cultures as black is the culture that planted the seed. It’s hides the real money maker that no one can see who is white based on the production of this music but black culture pushed for it to be apart of life. 

It is a walking bomb for black people who upload this music to express society as a whole based on its description through rap music. 

Black culture is falling at a high rate and it’s because of our attitude to life. Music 🎵 they should be able to express rap with out the major gun expression and the knife expressions as it’s is going to form a negative inspiration to the younger generation that is killing each other day by day in the world we are living today. 

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Smileband health topics

Article written by idaz medical, 

Blastomycosis is a caused by the fungusBlastomyces dermatitidis. The fungus lives in moist soil and is associated with decomposing organic matter. Some individuals can have lung infections after inhaling airborne fungal spores although many do not become ill. The symptoms of blastomycosis are similar to those of influenza.

 

Blastomyces in generally found in the midwestern, south-central, and southeastern states.

 

There has not been a case of Blastomycosis reported in Arizona in the past 10 years.

 

Transmission

Transmission occurs through inhalation of the Blastomyces dermatitidis spores from the environment.

Incubation period may be weeks to months. In symptomatic patients the median incubation period is 45 days.

Lab Tests & Specimen Info

Test*	Specimen
Culture (the specimens are in order of usefulness)	Skin Scrapings, Abscess Drainage, Urine, Sputum, Bronchial Aspirate
Serology (Plasma is not accepted)	Serum, CSF (Test can measure prior exposure to the fungus)

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Article written by George Martin, 

A suspect has been arrested in Jamaica over the murder of a British Windrush migrant and his wife who were found dead near their homes on Friday. The suspect, who is not being named, is being held at the local police station for questioning by authorities over the couple's deaths.

Charlie Anderson, 74, had retired to Jamaica from Manchester with his wife Gayle, 71, just 12 months ago.

Sources on the Caribbean island told the Sun that Gayle was found with her hair burnt off 20ft from the couple's luxury retirement home.

Husband Charlie's body was discovered with burns to the genitals an hour later 40 metres away from Gayle.

Local reports said the couple had been stabbed as both were reportedly found with wounds to their face and neck.

A source also told the Sun the couple's windows had been removed from the outside and the living room had been set on fire. A police source in Jamaica told The Sun: 'We have a lot of strands to put together - some of them we just can't explain yet.

Mrs Anderson was discovered 20ft in front of the house and on the couple's property. She was lying on her back and her body had been partially, although not severely, burned.

Her hair was burned off, but her face was visible. And her clothes were burned with some material sticking to her body.

Mr Anderson was found 40 metres from the house, but still on the couple's land. He and his clothing were also burned - it was concentrated around the genitalia area.

There were pieces of burnt clothing between his body and the house, like he had been on fire and was getting away from the building. He was found towards the end of a long slope. One of the rooms in the house was also burned, their living room which I believe they also used to cook in while they did construction work on another part of the home.

While a spokesperson for the Jamaican police said: 'The police arrested someone today. They made an arrest this morning and have started to question a suspect about the murders of two Britons.

The man is being detained at a police station in the area. No one has been charged and the police will release a statement later on about developments on this murder.

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Article written by Tom Kelly, glen keoeh, 

Genuine and fake versions can be bought for as little as £800, a Daily Mail investigation shows.

One page on Facebook has been used to trade illegal British passports for at least three years.  We also found that passports cloned with details taken from real passports were being touted for a few hundred pounds on other easily-accessible websites. The revelations follow yesterday’s Mail investigation into how stolen British passports are spirited to Turkey to be sold by people smugglers.

David Ibsen, a security expert who advised the US government, said it was no surprise Facebook was being used to hawk passports that could fall into the hands of terrorists. ‘It is well known that extremists use Facebook as a tool to achieve their goals,’ he said. ‘The Mail is to be congratulated for exposing something that poses a genuine danger.

‘We continue to see Facebook failing to address its platform’s role in encouraging and proliferating terrorism. One Facebook page in Arabic – called European Passports For Sale VIP – features multiple pictures of British travel papers.

The site boasts: ‘We sell passports from £800 to £2,600. We are not traffickers. We’re just selling the passport and are not responsible for your travel or smuggling.’ The site says seven out of ten customers succeeded in making it past border control. But it offers entry stamps for an extra £170 to £280.

When an undercover Mail reporter asked to buy a UK passport, the seller quickly replied via the WhatsApp messaging service. He offered a genuine passport for £2,400, another at £1,700 that looked ‘90 per cent real’ and a third ‘50 per cent real’ document for £1,400.

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Smileband general health

Article written by i daz medical 

Anaplasmosis is a tick-borne illness caused by the bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum. The disease was previously classified as Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis (HGE), but the name has recently been changed to Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA).

The tick that spreads anaplasmosis is commonly found in the northeast, upper Midwest, and northwestern parts of the United States. 

The first symptoms of anaplasmosis begin within 1-2 weeks after the bite of an infected tick. Symptoms of anaplasmosis can vary person to person and some people can become ill with all the symptoms. Rash is rarely reported with anaplasmosis infections, and if patients have a rash, it may indicate coinfection with another tick-borne illness.

Symptoms of anaplasmosis include:

• Fever
• Headache
• Muscle pain
• Malaise
• Chills
• Nausea / Abdominal pain
• Cough
• Confusion
• Rash (rare)

Anaplasmosis can be a serious disease, even in previously healthy people, if not treated correctly.

Arizona will typically see 2-5 cases of anaplasmosis reported each year. 

Transmission
Anaplasmosis is spread by the bite of an infected tick.

Blood transfusions and organ transplantation are also possible modes of transmission.

The incubation period is 1-2 weeks.

Lab Tests & Specimen Info

Test*	Specimen
PCR (this test should be used during the acute phase of the disease)	Whole Blood
Serology (Acute and convalescent specimens should be sent and the convalescent should be collected 2-4 weeks after the acute)	Serum
Microscopic examination (this test should be used during the first week of illness)

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