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The incubation period is usually from few hours(12) to 5 days usually between 2-3 days for a person to show symptoms after ingesting contaminated food or water. Cholera affects both children and adults(children and elderly are most vulnerable though) and can kill within hours if untreated. Most people infected with the V. cholerae do not develop symptoms, though the bacteria are present in their faces for 1-10 days after infection and are shed back into the environment, potentially infecting other people. Among people who develop symptoms, majority have wild or moderate symptoms while minority develop acute watery diarrhoea with severe dehydration. This can lead to death if left untreated. Mothers should seek prompt medical care. The symptoms include sudden onset of water diarrhoea, up to 1 liter per hour. The diarrhea has a "rice-water" appearance, where the stool looks like water with flecks of rice in it and has a fishy odour usually not associated with abdominal pain and...

Nigeria with a population of about 160 million people is presently faced with the issues of internally displaced people, comprising majorly of women, children and the elderly as a result of restiveness and flooding. Presently, there are different camp settlements for these internally displaced persons all over the country and with such come environmental and health challenges. These could result in Malnutrition and many preventable diseases, among which are water borne and water shortage diseases such as CHOLERA. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection, a disease of poverty and closely linked to poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water, a severe highly infectious diarrhoea disease caused by the bacterium: Vibrio cholerae  . So virulent that a person could be in good health at dawn and be buried at dusk, occurrence is worldwide, and disease burden is characterized as both endemic and epidemics. According to World Health Organizations, researchers have estimated that each ...

DIABETES Definition of Diabetes Mellitus:- This is a disease in which the body's ability to produce or respond to the hormone 'insulin' is impaired, resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates and elevated glucose in the blood. It is due to either the pancreas is not producing enough insulin or the cells of the body not responding properly to the insulin produced. There are three main types of Diabetes Mellitus * Type I DM : Results from the pancreas failure to produce enough insulin or 'Juvenile Diabetes'. The cause is unknown * Type II DM: Begins with insulin resistance,a condition in which cells fail to respond to insulin properly. As the disease progresses, the lack of insulin may also develop. This form was previously referred to as "none insulin dependent Diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) or an adult-onset diabetes". The most common cause is excessive body weight and lack of exercise. * Gestational Diabetes:  It is the third main form and ...

HIS NAME IS ROGER CRAWFORD. He makes his living as a consultant and public speaker, he has written two books and travels across the US working with Fortune 500 Companies, National and Great Associations and school districts. Those aren't bad credentials. But if that doesn't impress you, how about this. Before becoming a Consultant, he was a varsity Tennis Player for Loyola Marymount University and later became a professional Tennis Player certified by the United States Professional Tennis Association. Still not IMPRESSED? Would you change your mind if I told you Roger has NO HANDS(wrists and fingers) and ONLY ONE FOOT!  Roger Crawford was born with a condition called ECTRODACTYLISM. When he emerged from his Mother's womb, the doctors said that he had a thum-line projection extending out of his right forearm, and thumb and index growing from his left forearm. He had no palms. His legs and arms were shortened. And his left leg possessed a shrunken foot with only three toes...

Here are the acronyms talked about in the last post AMD- Advanced Micro Devices ATA- Advanced Technology Attachment AVI- Advanced Video Interleaved BASIC- Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code BIOS- Basic Input Output System bit- biNARY DIGit Blog- WEb log BPS- Bits Per Second BSoD- Blue Screen of Death BT- Bluetooth CAD- Computer-Aided Designs CAD- Computer-Aided Engineering CAM- Computer-Aided Manufacturing CAPTCHA- Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart CDMA- Code Division Multiple Access CHAP- Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol CMOS- Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semi-conductor COBOL- Common Business-Oriented Language CPU-Central Processing Unit DAT-Digital Audio Tape DB-Database DBA- Database Administrator DBMS- Database Management System DHCP-Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DVI- Digital Visual Interface EDGE-Enhanced Data-rates for GSM Evolution EVDO- Evolution-Data Optimized OR Evolution Data Only ...

It is a common thing today to see an average person who owns a laptop, iPad, pocket PC, netbook, Android, notebook and other handheld electronic devices for the purpose that is best known to the owner (thanks to Information Age Era). However, the capability of these IT electronic devices is the most important justifier of the price tag attached to them. The owner must therefore take full advantage of their vast capabilities; any form of underutilization will be wasteful It is worthy of note also, that the advent of social connectivity/productive websites/software like Facebook, Twitter, Skype instant messaging clients and servers etc. is changing the way we communicate and relate to those important to us; hence the need to learn and be proficient in handling your device. The greatest key to taking advantage of your I.T gadgets and productivity devices is to be a perpetual student who learns something new everyday. The starting point is the owners' log manual, and then take advan...

EUTHANASIA Hello dear reader, I welcome you to today's edition of the youth corner, we know it has been a long time, but please, sit back, relax and enjoy the new goodies we have brought back for you. In today's edition, we will be talking about Euthanasia, it's meaning, 'advantages', disadvantages, moral view and the view of the church. Euthanasia is simply mercy-killing. According to the 7th edition of the Oxford dictionary, it is the practice of killing without pain. Most times, it is to save dying people from miserable death and offer them a quick way. It is illegal in most countries, even here in Nigeria, why?, Because it is also a form of 'assisted suicide'. Like I said earlier, let's talk about the so-called 'advantages', most writers prefer to leave this out because it is not so real, but I won't so that you will have reasons to believe every other word in this article. An advantage is that it saves patient from going through worse ...