Swine Flu By Jack Conaghan Swine influenza‚ also called pig influenza‚ swine flu‚ hog flu and pig flu‚ is an infection caused by any one of several types of swine influenza viruses. Swine influenza virus (SIV) or swine-origin influenza virus (S-OIV) is any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is endemic in pigs. Swine flu under a Microscope As swine influenza is rarely fatal to pigs‚ little treatment beyond rest and supportive care is required. Instead‚ veterinary efforts
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ISP NOTES INTO THE FOREST BY JEAN HEGLAND Setting- * Into the Forest is based in a world around this time. Electricity is non-existent‚ Civilization has vanished and the world is in a commotion. * Based on two sisters who live in a post-apocalyptic world. * This story takes place in California‚ near San Francisco in a town called Redwood and that isn ’t exactly an isolated part of the world. * Eva and Nell stay at their house which is in a forest. They have to go to the town which
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General Papers ARKIVOC 2006 (i) 109-118 Synthesis and primary antiviral activity evaluation of 3-hydrazono-5-nitro-2-indolinone derivatives Nalan Terzioğlu *a‚ Nilgün Karalı a‚ Aysel Gürsoy a‚ Christophe Pannecouque b‚ Pieter Leysen b‚ Jan Paeshuyse b‚ Johan Neyts b‚ and Erik De Clercq b a Istanbul University‚ Faculty of Pharmacy‚ Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry‚ 34116‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey b Rega Institue of Medical Research‚ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven‚ B-3000 Leuven‚ Belgium E-mail:
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Is Your Sore Throat Strep? By Kristin Hayes‚ About.com Guide Updated October 06‚ 2009 About.com Health’s Disease and Condition content is reviewed by the Medical Review Board Question: Is Your Sore Throat Strep? It can be difficult to tell if your sore throat is strep or simply a cold virus. However‚ in most cases of strep throat there are some key differences. Answer: The only way to know for sure if your sore throat is strep is to have a rapid strep test or a throat culture. These tests
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The gifts of chemistry are a boon to mankind. Its applications in home and industry are many. Right from purified drinking water and motor car to cane sugar and mobile phone‚ all these have been made possible only through processes in chemistry at some stage or other of production. New discoveries‚ processes‚ and products are an integral part of this fascinating discipline. It offers a fertile ground for those endowed with intellectual curiosity and a passion for scientific research. you must
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Several years ago in Colorado‚ a Mexican immigrant child was diagnosed with diabetes. The doctor told the mother of the child to use insulin as part of her treatment. After several weeks‚ the insulin did not appear to be helping the child. Apparently‚ the child’s grandmother had been withholding the insulin shots because she thought they were addictive. She had been using herbal remedies that she had used previously in Mexico. Because of her misconceptions of American medicine and adherence to previous
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The most known member of the Poxviridae family is variola virus‚ the causing agent of smallpox disease. From the time of its suspected emergence after 10‚000 BC to the time of its eradication‚ smallpox was a worldwide feared disease that took hundreds of millions of lives (8). The first recorded smallpox epidemic was in 1350 BC during the Egyptian–Hittite war. Smallpox then spread to Europe between the 5th and 7th centuries and to the North American colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries. These
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The beginning of the New Year brought with it a frigid cold weather‚ giving us a bitter reality check that another harsh winter is here. During winter‚ you are at a higher risk of contracting the flu because we all run indoors‚ away from the cold and in closer contact to other people‚ and viruses. Cold and flu can be spread through direct contact or respiratory droplets that are generated when someone around you sneezes or coughs. Nevertheless‚ as hard as this winter can get‚ it’s not all doom and
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BENEFITS OF DRINKING WATER The human body‚ which is made up of between 55 and 75 percent water (lean people have more water in their bodies because muscle holds more water than fat)‚ is in need of constant water replenishment. Your lungs expel between two and four cups of water each day through normal breathing - even more on a cold day. If your feet sweat‚ there goes another cup of water. If you make half a dozen trips to the bathroom during the day‚ that’s
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A. I am going to talk about bronchitis. This condition is related to chapter 23‚ the respiratory system. B. Bronchitis is an illness related to the respiratory system in which our ability to breath gets affected because of an inflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes. Two different stages of the disease can be presented; the acute‚ which is a short-term chest cold‚ or the chronic‚ in which the inflammation persist and remains as a daily chough becoming a more serious condition that
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