What is Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus? Symptoms/Precautions

One and half year back, we saw attack of swine flu virus in India and now, it is turn of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus because three deaths are being confirmed from Gujarat State of India due to this virus. It is very uncommon virus and there is no earlier report of its spread in India so far. In 1944 and 1945, first incidence of 200 deaths from this virus was reported in Crimea. So far incidences of spread of this virus are reported from countries like Kosovo, Albania, Iran, Pakistan, and South Africa.

In 1969, scientists established that virus spread in Congo in 1956 was a same virus spread in Crimean; so, new name Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever emerged. This infection in humans is usually caused by bit of Hyalomma tick found in domestic and wild animals. The main virus causing CCHF is a Nairovirus, a group of viruses from Bunyaviridae family of viruses. After getting infected with virus first flu like symptoms appear in patients in 1 to 3 days.

In majority of patients (up to 80%) hemorrhage signs appear in next 2 to 3 days. First symptoms of this disease start with dizziness, neck pain and stiffness, backache, headache, sore eyes and then can lead to mental confusion, sleeplessness, nosebleeds, liver enlargement, bloody urine and vomiting, and black stools. Sometimes acute symptoms like kidney failure and shocks can occur in patients. Most of TV channels are creating panic by reporting 90% mortality with this disease; however, WHO report 30% mortality with this disease. For treatment of CCHF patients, WHO recommend anti viral drug ribavirin (available both in oral and intravenous form).

Only prevention method available is killing ticks by spraying acaricides chemical. People working with livestock need to take extra precautions so that they should not come in contact of ticks. Specimens of blood or tissues of CCHF patients should be taken with proper precaution because this infection can spread by touching these tissues or blood samples.

A new 15 year old Buddha

In Nepal, a new Buddha is in making. Recently a person called Ram Bahadur Bomjon from Nepal has been fasting and meditating for the last six months beneath a tree. In him, people are seeing a new Buddha. This incident has happened in the Bara district of Nepal. Thousands of pilgrims have started visiting this place. There is news that Ram has not broken his fast even a single time . For the last six months, he has not moved, even to relieve himself. His place is not much away from the place where the original Buddha had done his meditation. According to Ram, he does this meditation because a snake has beaten him. He is also asking people for not saying him Buddha because he is telling that he is not having the powers like Buddha.. kgw. arvindkatoch1 Read - 15-year-old Buddha to controversial Figure

Age difference of Abhishek and Aishwarya

Recently we all have seen the much hyped marriage of the Abhishek and Aishwarya. Today both these super stars of the Indian film industry are husband and wife. However this marriage has one unique thing in it which is age difference of Abhishek and Aishwarya. You may say that what is new in this; every other couple has age difference. Here exists the real catch, other Indian couples also have age difference but mostly in 99% of the cases males are older than their female counterparts. On the reverse in this marriage, Aishwarya Rai is older than Abhishek Bachan by 2 yrs and 2 month. With this Abhishek Bachan has followed the example of his father Amitab Bachan who has married women much shorter than him. The height of the Amitab Bachan is 6.2 ft and whereas the height of the Jaya Bachan is just 5.2 ft. Despite this Amitab Bachan and Jaya Bacahn are one of the most successful couple of the Indian film industry. In the time when other film star couple breaks away, this couple has remain f

Fast internet Speed is must for Growth of Country

Today, the internet has become an important part of our life and it is very difficult to imagine a life without it. However, in India still many parts of the country are not connected by high speed internet and the places which are connected with high speed internet don't get it frequently. Moreover, we need a fast internet connection at an affordable speed because at present all mobile operators are charging very high fee for high speed internet. I appreciate the steps taken by Punjab's Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal to increase high speed internet connectivity in every part of Punjab. He said that he sees a great progress in Punjab by connecting every part of Punjab with high speed internet. I do believe same that high speed internet at an affordable price is requirement of present time. Today, many jobs can be easily done with the help of the internet and we can connect every person easily through it.

Wastage of useful Time

We all people get numbers of opportunities in life to prove over selves; however, due to laziness or lack of motivation we waste most of useful time available in our hands. It is very important for every person to understand that it is very-2 important to utilise our time very wisely and lost time can never be recovered back by any person. When we take right action at right time then we increase chances of right results many times. Mostly, people fail in this world because they fail in understanding importance of their time. By utilising our time properly, we can easily increase our productivity and thus we make our life more comfortable. Large numbers of difficulties enter in to our life because of our nature of wasting our time. People who work hard and do not waste their time succeed in utilising their time properly and emerge as true winner very soon. Any work need sincere and timely efforts from a person; otherwise, it very hard to complete any work. People also trust a person who

Learn about Health Food Pyramid

For every person who wants to remain healthy, it is very important for him to eat nutritious food because proper nutrition level in food helps our body to absorb all essential vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins and minerals. After absorbing all these essential nutrients, our body become stronger and healthy to fight against various diseases and infections. To learn about healthy food, people are required to understand “Health Food Pyramid” well which guides people about eating a good and healthy food. This pyramid tells us that what should be importance of particular kind of eatable items in our food. This chart becomes small as it goes up so it tells us exactly what kind of food should be present at bottom of pyramid and what kind of food at top of pyramid. Food items present at the bottom of pyramid are basically food items which we are required to eat in large quantity; therefore, any ideal food constitutes of these items in large quality as compared to other items. Food items prese

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