Two girls die of undiagnosed disease
Click Title For Full ArticleSwelling on legs and mouth and pain in body are the symptoms of this mysterious disease.On the apprehensions expressed by some villagers that contaminated water might be the cause of the disease, the officers of the Public Health Engineering Department immediately took samples of the water and sent them to the laboratory for testing.They assured the villagers that after inquiry strict action would be taken against the person(s) found guilty. Mr S.K. Bhatia, Executive Engineer of the Public Health Engineering Department said that he himself had taken the water of the village tube–well and to the best of his knowledge the water was fit for drinking.
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========================Documenting 25 Suspect Cases Of Anthrax Or Anthrax In Colombian Indians
Bogot, May 21 (EFE) .- At least 25 suspected cases of anthrax or anthrax have been documented in indgenas Wayu settled in rural villages Riohacha, officials said Tuesday the public in the health system in this city caribea Colombia. Continue reading the printed article
Cutner injury cases are compatible with the disease, told Efe Health Secretary Riohacha municipality, the doctor and / Jess Prez Almenares.
It is "an outbreak of type zoontico (diseases transmitted from animals to humans)," said Perez, who insisted that, by now Cutner manifestations.
Suspected cases in the departmental capital of La Guajira AFTER six days were informed that the National Health Institute (INS, state) confirmed that less of ethnic bean Wayu contracted anthrax or anthrax.
Thenia, 13 years, lives in a ranch (home) section of the population Aboriginal coastal Manaure and apparently contracted the disease from contact with the blood of "a goat potentially affected by anthrax."
Segna Proteccin the Ministry of Social (health and work), "this patient is evolving satisfactorily to treatment initiated."
Health authorities were studying three suspected cases of the disease in Manaure, which focuses with intense Riohacha Campaign to address this threat to public health shall in Regina, which is part of the northern border with Venezuela , on whose territory there are settlements Also of Wayu.
On offense involving experts from the Pan American Health organization (PAHO), the INS, the National Institute of Food and Drug Monitoring (Invima) and the Ministry of Social Proteccin, on top of sections Riohacha Health and The Guajira.
She also estn officials in the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA, state), who have waged a campaign of vacunacin of goats and sheep, species s basic to the livelihood of these indgenas.
Efe Prez warned that landlords slo in the poblacin Riohacha aborgenes of these species is of more than 100,000 heads.
"The order is to vaccinate everyone," Secretary of Health of that city, who insisted that care should be taken with sick animals or die so sBIT case in which it is advisable not to eat meat.
While acknowledging that indgenas know and apply, the doctor and / said these animals should be cremated and his remains buried underground.
Suspecting the presence of the disease and to determine if an outbreak occurs, regional health authorities have made since da last 14 visits to twelve neighboring ranch in the two urban centers.
In thethe 750 surveys were performed that allowed to establish that 62 of the aborgenes "Cutner recorded history of injuries consistent with anthrax in the last six months."
Of these, 37 live in Riohacha Manaure and 25, according to the official report indicating that 74 percent of those injuries have healed.
Of the 62 indgenas, "16 lesions in the active phase and resolucin, logrndose sampling for direct examination in 15 people."
Polls show that 76 percent of aborgenes "has a history of having handled sick or dead animals in pasture work, sacrifice or prep for consumption."
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
A Wichita man is making his fight for life public in order to raise awareness of Lyme Disease. Lyme Disease is spread through ticks, but many doctors don't recognize it as a problem in this part of the country.
His name is Bob Reichenberger. Right now, Reichenberger is an active police detective. He is fit and in-shape, but the last year of his life hasn't been so pleasant.
"It was about the end of June, '09," Reichenberger explained. "I was out in pasture and I noticed on the way home that I had a couple ticks on me."
Within a few weeks, Reichenberger began noticing tremors in his chest and arms, as well as muscle spasms. Then, intense pain in his feet.
"I'm healthy, I never have to go to the doctor," he said. "I just thought it had something to do with being a 40 year-old guy who's active and physical. I've had some sports injuries, so I blamed it on that."
But this story isn't about ticks or Bob's lyme disease. The story is that after months of suffering to the point the disease nearly killed him, eight doctors refused to test him for Lyme. Instead, Reichenberger was told he was suffering from severe depression. He was even accused of being a pill seeker. By November, Reichenberger went to his doctor and told him he thought he was dying.
"They were turning me away and I felt helpless, so I started crying and she laughed at me and walks off," said Reichenberger as began to get emotional. "At that point, I was so hopeless I couldn't be angry. I walked out to my car and cried for about half hour."
In December, Reichenberger had a seizure at work and collapsed. He was admitted to the hospital. That's when he started pulling his own medical records and discovered his doctors wrote that he needed to seek psychiatric and behavioral help. He was appalled. The tougher struggle, however, was watching his children suffer.
"They were starting to have emotional issues. My 18 year-old would literally have to carry me to bed at night," Reichenberger said.
After a short pause to calm his emotions, he continued.
"I couldn't stand to be in the dark room, so I would have him help me out in the front room so I could be with the family unit, but I felt being around them, I was bringing them down."
The infection had spread to his heart and lungs. Reichenberger was in the fatal stages of the disease. One day in December, he fell to the floor in his own living room.
"At this point, I'm thankful that it's over," he said. "I love my family with all my heart, but I was glad it was finally over and I was just waiting for everything to go dark and to be finished."
Reichenberger was ready to die. He told his wife not to call an ambulance. He didn't want any more doctors. He didn't want help from the people who didn't believe him. He wanted to pass away and allow his family to move on.
Fortunately, Reichenberger survived that nearly fatal episode. During his research, he discovered an LLMD - or Lyme Literate Medical Doctor - in Missouri. He went there and finally convinced someone to give him a Lyme Disease test. He was finally diagnosed.
Today, Bob Reichenberger is a police detective in Wichita. He is mostly healthy and pain free now that he is getting the proper antibiotics to slowly kill the bacteria that nearly killed him.
Reichenberger has since found other people who live within walking distance of him who have gone through the same ordeal... a problem he says is unacceptable.
WHO: Measles Make Rapid Comeback in Bulgaria
Health | May 23, 2010, Sunday
A girl receives a vaccination against many infectious diseases as polio and measles in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Photo by EPA/BGNES
The World Health Organizations has warned that measles is making a rapid comeback in African, Asian and even some European countries, including Bulgaria, because of a lack of vaccination.
"There is a widespread resurgence of measles with these outbreaks in over 30 African countries, some of which are seeing very high case fatality ratios," WHO expert Peter Strebel told a news briefing.
Some 8,000 children in Bulgaria also had the highly-contagious disease during the period, he said.
"Being one of the most contagious diseases, measles is making a rapid comeback," he stressed.
Measles deaths among young children fell to 118,000 in 2008, compared with 1.1 million in 2000, according to WHO.
But the number of cases has surged over the past year, with large outbreaks reported in 30 African countries — from Mauritania to Zambia and Angola to Ethiopia — and Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Bulgaria.
According to Strebel starting in 2008, there has been a considerable decline in funding and political commitment for measles control that has resulted in the stagnation of progress.
"More alarmingly, WHO estimates that the combined effect of decreased financial and political commitment could result in a return to over 500,000 measles deaths a year by 2012, wiping out the gains made over the past 18 years," added Strebel.
The 193 member states of the WHO will meet this week in Geneva to adopt a series of measures up to 2015 aimed at cutting measles cases to less than five per million persons as well as reducing mortality by 95 percent from its 2000 levels.
Turkish authorities have tightened border controls over fears of a spread of measles from neighbouring Bulgaria.
The measles epidemic in Bulgaria has affected 18,000 people, primarily from the Roma minority. Twenty have died of disease.
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