Monday, 8 September 2014

ENTEROVIRUS 68

The rare virus suspected of sickening 1,000 kids in 11 states can start out like the common cold but quickly evolve into something much more serious, health officials say. The virus, known as enterovirus 68, is similar to the rhinovirus that causes the common cold, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But unlike a cold, the infection can lead to severe respiratory symptoms like wheezing. "It’s the wheezing you have to watch out for," said ABC News’ chief health and medical editor, Dr. Richard Besser, referring to the whistling sound generated when air moves through narrowed breathing tubes. Unidentified Respiratory Virus Likely to Hit Kids Across Country Respiratory Virus Sickening Children in Colorado Doctors at Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver have seen more than 900 pediatric patients with symptoms of the virus in the emergency room since mid- August, according to officials. The hospital admitted 86 kids with severe symptoms and a handful ended up in intensive care. Beyond Colorado, suspected cases have also been reported in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Atlanta, Utah and Georgia, according to the CDC. North Carolina has been removed from the list of affected states, the agency said today, but the list is expected to grow. "If your state doesn't have it now, watch for it, it's coming," said Besser. Here are five things you should know about the outbreak. Georgia and Pennsylvania reported clusters of enterovirus 68 almost exactly five years ago in September 2009, according to a 2011 CDC report . Arizona had a small cluster of cases in August and September 2010, according to the same report. This Isn’t the First Enterovirus 68 Outbreak in the U.S. While this isn’t the first time enterovirus 68 has popped up in the U.S., health officials are still trying to figure out why the virus has reemerged. "This is a very common time for outbreaks. Kids come back to school, they like to share things, they bring them home to their little brothers and sisters," said Besser, adding that most enterovirus outbreaks occur in the summer. "But this one, this particular enterovirus is very rare, and they have no idea why it showed up this year." No One Knows How It Started Studies on enterovirus 68 are limited, and so is knowledge about how the virus spreads. Most enteroviruses spread through contact with respiratory secretions like saliva and mucous as well as feces, according to the CDC. The Department of Health and Senior Services in Missouri, where at least 300 suspected cases have been reported, recommends washing hands thoroughly and often, avoiding close contact with people how are sick, disinfecting frequently-touched surfaces and staying home with feeling sick. No One Knows How It Spreads There are no anti-viral medications for enterovirus 68, and no vaccines to prevent the infection, according to the Missouri Department of Health a Senior Services. Instead, health care providers are tasked with treating the symptoms of the infection – a job that may require hospitalization. "The important thing is to recognize the signs of respiratory distress," said Besser, describing how difficulty talking, audible wheezing and bluish lip color can signal distress. "There are treatments to improve respiration." There’s No Specific Treatment Young children and people with asthma may be particularly vulnerable to enterovirus 68, health officials say. Dr. Raju Meyappan, a pediatric critical care physician at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver, said he's seen multiple asthmatic children end up on breathing tubes in intensive care unit after contracting the virus. "As a pediatric ICU doctor, we try our best not to intubate kids with asthma at any point in time," Meyappan said. "They all needed it. The onset [of the virus] is severe." Children also appear to be more susceptible than adults, according to a CDC report released today about cases in Missouri and Illinois. The ages of those infected ranged from 6 weeks to 16 years, with most of the illnesses occurring in children aged 4 and 5.

NEW CODES FOR ALL NETWORKS

By eMiracle 10:34:00 No comments:

Mobile phone users to use common codes from today Monday 8th September , 2014 10:12 am All mobile phone users regardless of the network will use a common short code to check their credits, top up and assess call centres from today. This follows the National Communications Authority’s (NCA) move to harmonize all short codes for general customer services across all networks. The NCA however says the existing short codes for the various telecommunicati on networks will run concurrently with the new one until April 2015. To recharge, subscribers will use 134. To check balance, subscribers will need to dial 124 and 100 for the call centre. The others are 600 for number portability, 400 for verification of SIM, 108 for Voice Mail Deposit and 109 for Voice Mail Retrieval. There have been complaints from users about the number of short codes they have deal with, prompting an investigation by the NCA, which eventually decided to introduce common codes.

Dr. Stephen Davis and the head of Boko Haram

By eMiracle 09:55:00 No comments:

People are confused. They ask how army chiefs can waste their men in the cycle of death. Why will a Christian army chief support a “Muslim” terror organization? Questions like these. I will try here to explain the cycle of death. The world is filled with very horrible people. There are people, westerners, easterners and between who run guns; they supply arms to conflict zones around the world to make a big buck. These wicked people are well aware of the deaths these guns cause but go ahead because this makes seriously big money. Developed nations are involved. The “almighty” United States is known for serially blocking UN resolutions to ban small arms supplies to conflict nations especially in Africa. Statistics has it that 90% of genocides, of terror deaths and regional violence are perpetrated not by state munitions but by small arms, mostly illegally supplied in the hands of militia and other criminals. Arms trade is the biggest business in the world. Money is a key motivator and Nigerians are no better people than all the others in the world implicated in death delivering gun-running. Hausa are no more virtuous than Igbo, nor Yoruba than Tiv. We have corruption at all facets of the Nigerian society, within the civil force and the armed forces. Our soldiers burn buses and kill innocent children of our religious leaders; they burn newspapers and commit all other types of atrocities. These are the same soldiers that become the nation’s army chiefs. They are no angels. When the junior officers commit atrocities, we all know that they are not court-martialed; this implicates the army chiefs in all atrocities and evils committed by the junior officers. The buck stops at their table. And it is corrupt and wicked junior officers like this, under a corrupted system who someday become our army chiefs. What this tells us is that unfortunately, the Nigerian military is as rotten today as all other facets of our society; top to bottom and bottom to top. Boko Haram is a business. Many view it as some sort of evil emanation; however to those involved in the war against Boko Haram; perhaps we need to adjust our lenses and see what they may have gotten corrupted into. This terror without head and cogent agenda, makes big money, is a political franchise and is involved in all sorts of deals including drug trade in partnership with MEND as CIA has revealed. Negotiator Step terrorists and l Dok Let’s imagine Shekau, who is heavily funded by some crazy man in Egypt or Nigeria, needs an Armored Personnel Carrier, APC. He send emissary to the Nigerian army chief and asks to buy one. He offers to have $10 million cash wired through his CBN connect direct into the army chief’s Swiss account. Will the army chief refuse to sell, knowing what our army has been recognized for these years? Do we think these army chiefs are better than the Abachas and Babangidas of our past? Tops, the army chief will warn him not to perpetrate any of his terror atrocities in his village or in the south of the nation. We Nigerians sadly do not like ourselves; we are known to orchestrate evil on the next village, talk less several villages and states away. We have villages raiding and killing neighboring villages in the north and south over petty disputes, so why do we fool ourselves that the army chiefs will not be interested in making big money to support genocides somewhere up there in “that part of the country,” “that Gwoza sef,” as President Jonathan refers to it/ the north? And after the tanks and APC’s are sold and systematically transferred to the hands of the terrorists, will their business partner army chiefs be eager to bomb the goods they just sold to their business partners? Of course not. We now begin to understand the survival of Boko Haram and its impunity from harm of the nation’s superior powered army with fighter jets and military copters. Deputy defense minister Musliu Obanikoro said Nigeria can eliminate Boko Haram in 24 hours if they wanted to. He did not lie. Now, this explanation of how and why our army chiefs get into business- sponsorship of Boko Haram is just an intro. We also realize the army chiefs could have the type of animosity some of the lower of us have for each other and based on this, can even supply these armored vehicles and tanks to the terrorists to perpetrate their genocide for free. The world is a very wicked place and wickedness is not limited by tribe, race or religion. In the cycle of death, we must not be fooled that the army cares about its own men dying. We see no brothers of the army chiefs dying. Money is the root of all evil and for the right amount of money; these men do not care if officers die. Really, they do not. The final step in the cycle of death is the death to the northern resident. If these army chiefs are actually radical fanatics, they will be happy with the death of northern residents. We are assuming they hate the north and believe all people who are like them should have left the north or will be frightened enough to evacuate the north when they are done with them. When we give excuse to the army chiefs that do they not kill Boko Haram members in large numbers and that this proves they are actually fighting the terrorists; do we consider that to them, as with the president, “those people are those people over there,” be they terrorists or villagers, there really is no connection and no relationship? The army today allows Boko Haram to abduct men and girls, the girls are married and the men are forcefully conscripted into the terrorist army at knife point. Our army chiefs know this and do not prevent the Boko Haram overthrow of northern farming villages and mass abductions. Now when the army kills Boko Haram en mass, they know they are simply exterminating the forcefully conscripted and unwilling sacrificed youth warriors for Boko Haram that should have been rescued had the army done its paid job. In the process, Boko Haram helps gather together the hated youth resident in the north and the army cuts them down, this cycle has continued for the five years of the Jonathan administration, leaving total numbers dead at well over a hundred thousand and millions destroyed. We see Jonathan dancing as they die in “that Gwoza sef.” It is genocide, a systematic one involving cooperation between the army chiefs implicated by Dr. Stephen Davis and the head of Boko Haram, a bloody wealthy businessman who does their bidding.

EBOLA VIRUS STRIKES KADUNA

By eMiracle 14:40:00 No comments:

According to reports from pulse Nigeria, a 19 year old student at kaduna was diagnosed with the virus from reports reaching us from http://pulse.ng/news/just-in-ebola-hits-kaduna-id3100318.html?utm_campaign=just-in-ebola-hits-kaduna&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

HOW TO READ STORE CIRCULARS

By eMiracle 13:51:00 No comments:

How to Read Store Circulars

Store circulars are weekly ads that the stores places out selected items as their "loss leaders". These items are sold at a lower price than what you would normally see on the shelves

in their hopes of bringing in more consumers to purchase more products while they're shopping. You will always see these in the supermarket no matter where you go. However, to be a smart shopper and to know how not to be jinxed out of your wallet, here is how to read a store circular correctly.

EditSteps

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Create and maintain a price book. Store cycles occurs typically every 8 to 12 weeks. Depending on the specific store itself, making a weekly list of the prices of the products you purchase will allow you to guess and determine when its prices will be the lowest and how much you will need of it until the next sale.
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Know that the true loss leaders are printed on the first and last pages of the ads. These are the "eye openers" and "last chance" opportunities from the store. Everything else in between is considered to be "fluff"; these could be bargains (depending on the product cycle prices), a little lower than shelf price, or not worth getting.
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Ignore the flashes and moving words. Three huge marketing techniques that are often seen are big fonts, the wording of the advertisement, and savings icons/images, such as dollar signs. These are the ways that companies "manipulate" the mind to interpret something big, but it's really not.
- "One Day Seafood Sale!" = You must go on that specific day to purchase it for that price.
- "Over ____ in Savings!" = This is the total amount of savings throughout the entire ad, if you were to purchase every single item on the ad.
- "Buy any 10 items/$25.00 worth in this list in one transaction and get $5.00 off your next purchase" = You would need to achieve the minimum total in one trip. The "next purchase" means that you would have to complete another transaction or come back again in the future before the deal expires in order to use it.
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Do your math on any combined deal. A lot of the times, you will run into a circular deal where it says "10/$10" or "Buy One Get One Free/50% Off". These marketing tools to combine such deals are to draw attention to the eye and make you believe that you can get more for a "better price".
- Divide any money amount by the quantity. For example, you see "Buy 2 for $5.00". With simple calculations, you will know that each item will be $2.50. The only exception to this is if there is any fine print stating "or $2.99 each", in which you will need to purchase the multiplied sale amount to get the sale price.
- Watch out for any "Buy One Get One ____" deals. At rare times, the store will provide a price on the circular, otherwise these deals revolve around the regular shelf price. This is also another reason why your price book comes in handy. Because you already have the shelf price in your hands, you don't need to spend time in the store looking for it (and eventually ending up purchasing last minute things while you're there). You will be required to purchase at least one item of the deal in order to get the multiplied item for the discounted price.
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Create your shopping list around your price book and the store circular. By buying only the loss leaders and the items at their lowest price will guarantee you savings. When products are at extreme low or "rock bottom" prices, that is the time to stockpile until the next sale.
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Take advantage of store reward programs, mail in rebates, and coupons. These opportunities will give you additional savings along with the sale prices.