Council Chronicle

Sunday, January 17, 2021
Log in
  • National News
  • Business & Economy
  • Technology
  • Science
  • Health
  • About CC
    • Our Team
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy GDPR
    • Terms of Use

Pages

  • About Council Chronicle
  • Contact Us
  • Our Team
  • Privacy Policy GDPR
  • Terms of Use

Recent Posts

  • Former Wife of Prolific Arizona Serial Killer Speaks Up First Time after Scottsdale Suicide June 29, 2018
  • Indiana Couple Arrested After Authorities Discovered Cruel Punishment Device in Home June 28, 2018
  • Schizophrenic Oregon Man Who Was Seen Carrying His Mother’s Head Committed to Psychiatric Facility June 27, 2018
  • Texas Lawmen Looking for Four Suspect Who Tortured Child During Home Invasion June 27, 2018
  • Retirement Home Resident Reported Fake Fire to Draw In Firefighters and Shoot Them June 26, 2018
  • Arkansas Man Kills Wife, Sticks Body In Chest Freezer Before Committing Suicide June 26, 2018
  • West Virginia Man Arrested After He Tried to Baptize Family by Drowning Them in the Bathtub June 25, 2018

WHO Will Double the Cholera Vaccine Supply in 2016

January 11, 2016 By Melanie Quintal Leave a Comment

"cholera vaccine"

The cholera vaccine supplies will be doubled this year.

WHO will double the cholera vaccine supply in 2016, according to a new report released on Friday. Last year, two manufacturers supplied 3 million doses of vaccine, and this year a third producer will join them, and the cholera vaccine supplies will reach 6 million.

EuBiologics is WHO’s new vaccine producer and was required because the nations continue to face major deadly outbreaks. According to Who, the addition of the South Korean company will help lower the high prices of the vaccines and will meet the high demand that is currently on the market. Last year, the World Health Organization had to turn down the vaccine requests of Haiti and Sudan, because of the high demands.The humanitarian crises will be helped by WHO, according to whom the rainy season brings with it many new cases of cholera. The disease can be found in more than 50 countries around the world. Every year, between 1 million and 4 million cases of cholera are being reported, of which approximately 140,000 lead to death.

Cholera is the infection of the small intestine by the Vibrio cholera bacteria. While some people don’t show any symptoms, others can experience watery diarrhea, vomiting, muscle cramps, and dehydration. When the diarrhea is severe it can lead to the skin turning blue, decreased skin elasticity, cold skin, sunken eyes and wrinkling of the feet and hands. After the exposure, the symptoms can appear varying from a few hours to a few days.

The disease is mostly spread by the water that has been contaminated with feces containing the bacteria. When the seafood is not cooked long enough, the disease can appear. Other factors that increase the risks of cholera are poverty, poor sanitation and the dirty drinking water.

Experts believe that if the sea levels will increase, the rates of cholera will increase as well. The climate changes like drought and flooding brought by El Niño also contribute to the new cases of cholera.

In order to avoid the cholera infections, people are advised to drink water only if it is bottled or after it has been boiled. The food is recommended to be either packaged, either eaten after it has been freshly cooked. Experts advise against eating undercooked meat or seafood. The fruits and vegetables are advised to be eaten only after they have been peeled. People are also advised to wash their hands as frequently as possible. These recommendations go for the people who live in areas that are at high risk of cholera outbreaks. As WHO will double the cholera vaccine supply in 2016, the cholera outbreaks are expected to decrease and to be managed quicker than in the past.

Image Source: www.upload.wikimedia.org

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2016, cholera outbreaks, Cholera Vaccine Supply, EuBiologics, symptoms, WHO

What You Need to Know about Cervical Cancer

January 11, 2016 By Karla Connors Leave a Comment

"cervical cancer sign"

This month is bringing awareness of the cervical cancer.

Less and less American women are diagnosed with cervical cancer or are diagnosed in the early stages, but cervical cancer still claims too many lives ever year. Because January is the Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, here is what you need to know about cervical cancer.

Every year approximately 13,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer. Most of the cases are diagnosed in the early stages and the women are cured of it entirely. Around the world though, 500,000 women are diagnosed with this type of cancer and half of the cases lead to death.

There are more types of cervical cancer, but all of them attack the glands and the fibrous tissue of the cervix, which is found at the bottom of the uterus. The cervical cancer usually spreads to other parts of the body as well. The more advanced screenings of our times are able to detect the cancer while it is still in the precancerous phase. This is the reason why so many people are cured nowadays of cervical cancer.

One of the biggest issues is that in the early stages, no symptoms appear. Symptoms of a malignancy can include pelvic pain, vaginal bleeding and pain during sexual contact. The bleedings after sexual contact are not always a sign of cancer though. Symptoms of a more advanced cervical cancer include weight loss, loss of appetite, bone fractures, pelvic pain, back pain, swollen legs and heavy vaginal bleeding.

Most of the cases of cervical cancer are caused by the human papillomavirus infection. But there are also a lot of people infected with HPV, who never develop this form of cancer. There are some factors that increase the chances of HPV infections like birth control pills, a high number of sexual partners, weak immune system and sex at a young age.

There are some HPV vaccines that can protect the people against this virus and even against the cervical cancer. In order to prevent the infection, doctors recommend the use of condoms, a small number of sexual partners and regular Pap smears. The cervical cancer can be treated with the help of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.

Worldwide, cervical cancer is the fourth cause of death in women. In the poor countries, cervical cancer is the most common death cause for women. In the developed countries, the screenings are more advanced and the cervical cancer cases have decreased considerably.

This is what you need to know about cervical cancer, and if you have experienced any of the symptoms described here make an appointment with your doctor as soon as possible.

Image Source: www.upload.wikimedia.org

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Cervical Cancer, HPV infections, symptoms, women

Type 2 diabetes 101

November 8, 2015 By Karla Connors Leave a Comment

"Type 2 diabetes 101"

More than 20 million Americans suffer from type 2 diabetes.

What is diabetes? What can we do to prevent it? These are just a couple of questions that pop into mind when he hear so many warnings about eating foods that contain high levels of sugar. The article will be about diabetes, but spearheading the discussions will be type 2 diabetes. So, basically, this will be a type 2 diabetes 101 attempt.

Again, we ask, what is diabetes? According to the medical literature, diabetes is defined as being a long-term disease triggered by our body’s incapacity of handling glucose, a derivative of sugar found in your blood stream.

According to some statistics, over 28 million Americans suffer from diabetes, specifically, from type 2 diabetes. Numbers role even further, detailing that along those 28 million souls that are incapable of controlling blood sugar, there are almost 89 million who are in what is called prediabetes. What’s the major difference between diabetes and prediabetes? Diabetes is your body’s incapacity of handling glucose. Hence registered glucose levels are very high. In prediabetes, you experience an unusual level of blood glucose, but not enough to be qualified as diabetes.

The cause of diabetes is linked to how your pancreas handles and produces a hormone called insulin. This specific hormone secreted by your pancreas has a vital role because he is capable of turning food into energy. Patient that exhibit the symptoms of type 2 diabetes are capable of secreting insulin but their cells don’t have a clue about what to do with it. AS the disease progress, the incapacity of insulin to trigger glucose metabolisation leads to a buildup of glucose in your body.

Among the leading causes that trigger type 2 diabetes are: genes, obesity and metabolic syndrome (a combo of high blood glucose, extra weight and high levels of cholesterol and triglycerides).

Let’s also introduce something about symptomatology in our type 2 diabetes 101. The typical symptoms associated with diabetes are: polyuria (you tend to urinate more than frequently), polydipsia (excessive drinking) and polyphagia (eating a lot more than usual). On the other hand, type 2 diabetes is associated with polydipsia, polyuria, blurry vision, irritability, a sensation of numbness in your hands or your feet, wounds that won’t close and recurring yeast infections.

What can we do to prevent type 2 diabetes? There are a couple of things that we should keep into mind. First of all, we should exercise more often, because the movement of muscles actually produces insulin. A healthy diet also helps against diabetes (do avoid high carbs, sugary foods and saturated fats). Also, if you are a smoker, than you should think about quitting.

Image source:flickr.com

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: diabetes, glucose, Insulin, symptoms, type 2

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 18 other subscribers

Recent Articles

ethics in dictionary highlighted

NIH Will Examine Ethical Problems of One of Their Studies

March 27, 2018 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

biomutant character

Eleven-Minutes Long Biomutant Trailer Prepares You for Amazing Gameplay and Mechanics

August 26, 2017 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

intime alibaba

Intime May Be Acquired By Its Founder And Alibaba

January 11, 2017 By Jesse Skelton Leave a Comment

Newborn baby

A Woman Gave Birth to Baby After Fertilizing Frozen Ovary

December 16, 2016 By Lee Raulin Leave a Comment

Parkes radio telescope

Hunting Aliens with Parkes Radio Telescope

November 11, 2016 By Ben Beckstrom Leave a Comment

man suffering from election season stress

Stressed Out? Here Are 7 Ways to Get Rid of Election Season Stress

October 19, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

Disney World wants to prevent fraud.

Disney World prevents fraud by scanning children’s fingers

September 8, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

artificial intelligence

How will the Artificial Intelligence will affect our life by 2030?

September 3, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

opera sync

Opera Sync resets passwords after it was hacked

August 30, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

viping

Why are teens viping – flavours or nicotine?

August 26, 2016 By Dustin Smith Leave a Comment

sex abuse

Doctors in sex abuse cases return to work. What happens with their victims?

August 25, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

affection

Affection or food – which is more important for a dog?

August 19, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

Chipotle restaurant

Chipotle to Open its First Burger Joint

July 30, 2016 By Ben Beckstrom Leave a Comment

Chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A Rolls Out Protein-Packed Grill Breakfast Sandwich

July 20, 2016 By Ben Beckstrom Leave a Comment

Categories

  • Breaking News
  • Business & Economy
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • National News
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Technology
  • World News

Copyright © 2021 CouncilChronicle.com

About · Terms of Use · Privacy Policy · Contact

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more.