CDC Symptoms of Ebola include Fever Severe headache Muscle pain Weakness Diarrhea Vomiting Abdominal (stomach) pain Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising) Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days. Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinicalContinue Reading

Official WHO Ebola death toll near 5,000 with true number nearer 15,000: http://t.co/Ly02y3MXvs pic.twitter.com/WkhNx3veGT — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 22, 2014 A U.N. plan to stop the epidemic, known as 70-70-60, involves isolating at least 70 percent of cases and safely burying at least 70 percent of those whoContinue Reading

Cooperation by health services can help people to give up smoking – @DrChrisBullen in Thailand’s @nationnews http://t.co/iGg7392iU8 — NIHI New Zealand (@NIHI_NZ) October 22, 2014 Assoc Prof Chris Bullen, director of the National Institute for Health Innovation at Auckland University, said that the Quitline to help people kick the habitContinue Reading

The device is based on state-of-the-art molecular biology, and the latest scientific discoveries in the field of microRNA – a class of tiny biological regulator molecules, discovered in 1993. They can be used as a “perfect, highly sensitive biomarker,” as their levels vary in the blood, forming specific patterns characterizingContinue Reading

Honesty and openness make a #man stronger http://t.co/z15VYhJe7U @GoodMenProject pic.twitter.com/TIlyRE8SQN — MaleSurvivor (@MaleSurvivorORG) October 22, 2014 But what happens when we follow that advice? Eventually the strain of all our burdens will overwhelm even the strongest man. When overwhelmed, many of us begin to shut down or disconnect. We pullContinue Reading

The beckoning finger, the winking eye-it’s just not Christmas without Auckland’s creepy Santa.http://t.co/DwRZgjmI2C pic.twitter.com/Dkzs3MNMBu — Stuff.co.nz News (@NZStuff) October 22, 2014 Auckland’s giant Santa may have seemed like a dirty old man with his slowly winking eye and creepy beckoning finger, but the five-tonne, 18-metre festive figure had been partContinue Reading