The New Outbreak of Respiratory Illness

Today, there is a new outbreak of respiratory illness spreads between Midwest and 38 states in the United States, because it was already reported several cases. In the article “Outbreak of a Respiratory Illness Escalates Among Children and Mystifies Scientists” by Catherine Saint Louis, it’s clear these informations and explain the infection source by enterovirus D68. Besides, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed 226 cases of infection with enterovirus 68, one case involved an adult and no deaths have been linked to the infection. “Parents would love to know why this virus is causing severe disease and why there are more cases,” said Rafal Tokarz, an associate research scientist at Columbia University who has studied the virus, “but we won’t be able to answer that until a lot more research is done.” Thus, this actual problem is scary, so it’s important to know more about the symptoms, the risks and the preventions. The symptoms can be divided in mild, like fever, runny nose, sneezing, cough, and body and muscle aches, also severe that can be divided in wheezing and difficulty breathing. The risks are because children and teenagers don’t have yet immunity from previous exposures to these viruses. Therefore, the main way to avoid is through prevention, so there isn’t still vaccine, that’s why it’s fundamental to wash hands often with soap and water, avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands; avoid kissing, hugging, and sharing eating utensils with people who are sick.

Source: <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/health/outbreak-of-a-respiratory-illness-escalates-among-children.html?ref=health&_r=0>

The society’s villain

The average waist circumference has increased in the United States currently, and it's a greatest problem between North-American populations, because several diseases start with the abdominal obesity. In the article “The Expanding American Waistline” by Nicholas Bakalar, it is clear there was this significantly and worrying increased. “Standing on the scale every day is all good and well, but you can have a steady weight and still have an expanding waist. And that should be a signal for people to start looking at their diet and physical activity” said the lead author of the study, Dr. Earl S. Ford, a medical officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Thus, many factors contribute to theses complex problems, but the basic reasons are simple: we eat too much, we choose the wrong foods and we don’t get enough exercise. It’s common we see children, adults and old people eat fast foods and drink soda during the main daily meals, what it’s the bad! Because the body needs vitamins, nutrients and minerals for survive, and these foods don’t provide anything. Also, people are sedentary more and more and they don’t practice physical activity, because today everything is easily, so it becomes lazy. Besides, we can report some risks for the abdominal obesity, like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke and cancer, that’s why all these diseases lead the death. Therefore, we conclude the fat is the society's villain and its consequences are severe, that’s why it’s important to encourage everyone have good eating habits and an active life.

http://www.healthytipstoday.net/tag/abdominal-obesity

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The actual scary winter in the USA

I heard about the actual winter in the USA will be colder than the many years ago, that’s why my friends and I decide to buy winter clothes for us protection. In the article about “Metereologists Predict Record - Shattering Snowfall Coming Soon", by Siver Spring, it is clear the snowfall is shattering snow storms across the board. Edward F. Blankenbaker, Senior Administrator of Meteorologists, told the media that “this will be a once-in-a-lifetime kind of snowy winter” and so all people can suffer with it. Change weather attain the everyone and everything, because like example, the food need a certain temper to grow up and develop and the animals suffer similar people, thus it right that supply and demand could cause shortages and more other difficult problems. Besides, the explanation for this impact is in the phenomenon El Niño that is associated with a band of warm ocean water temperatures that periodically develops off the Pacific coast of South America, and it can be cause a climatic instability. These informations are scared for me, because I have never felt this temper in Brazil, so it is a tropical country, and I confess that I can’t imagine a smaller temper than zero degrees Celsius or negative forty degrees Celsius. It is unbelievable in my mind! Therefore, in my opinion if I and all North America people don’t worry about the winter season in the 2014, we will feel the lowest temper and it will be almost impossible to maintain the normal life and, or the worst, continue to live.

Source: <http://empirenews.net/meteorologists-predict-record-shattering-snowfalls-coming-soon-bread-milk-prices-expected-to-soar/#prettyPhoto/0/>

The Ebola Outbreak

The Ebola Outbreak in the West Africa is an actual global problem, and this epidemic is over-increase and so the opportunities to control are ending, these words can be look for in the article, 'Window to Stop Ebola Outbreak is 'Closing Quickly,' Official Warns by Alexandra Sifferlin.

Besides, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 1900 deaths in West Africa's Ebola outbreak, thus it showing how the number of virus's cases is so large, and its power is stronger than when it became in 1976.

In relation about the disease, datas inform it can be acquired in blood, secretion and bodily fluids of a sick person or animal, and its principle symptom is the fever that leads to hemorrhage and organ failure. The vaccine and cure weren't still discovery, and the treatment is keeping the hydration and the isolation.

Therefore, in my opinion this epidemic is worrying, and that’s why all people need to be alert, so an uncontrolled epidemic doesn't turn into a pandemic, and so attains more still all the world.