Swine Flu kills 150 people

Filed under :Health, Travel

The dangerous Swine Flu has so far killed nearly 150 people in Mexico alone. Mexico first reported the disease few days back and WHO authorities swung into action immediately.
WHO has now confirmed that the Swine Flu has spread to more countries and moved it into highest level of global alert.
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US has so far reported over 43 cases of Swine Flu infected people and has now started screening every passenger coming from Mexico. It has also issued a warning to all it’s citizens to avoid touring Mexico till further notice, with a view to contain the virus from spreading further.
UK and other European countries have already swung into action and have started distributing medicines to all key city health centers on a priority basis.
A WHO preliminary review says that the developing world is ill equipped to handle the crisis, and even basic awareness among the senior government level officials is lacking. WHO is satisfied with the preparedness of the developed countries like US, Japan and Europe for handling the disease.
Japan is said to be having vaccines to cover 20% of their population while UK is equipped to provide the vaccine to 50% of their population.
In contrast, the second most populous nation in the world, India is said to be having vaccines to support only 0.0025% of their population. That is precisely the reason why WHO is fearing that this disease might turn into a Pandemic anytime.
The level of preparedness of China could also be very low, may be at around 5%.
The spread of the virus is already costing the airlines and hotel industry across US and Europe, and it may start affecting the food industry also in the coming weeks.
Mexico is already reeling under severe economic recession, and the Swine Flu could only delay the recovery further. Let us pray to God to help us tide over the crisis.


AIDS control badly needed

Filed under :Health

How does the whole world ensure that the deadly human killer disease, AIDS, is prevented from further spreading.

Massive number of South African population are getting affected by AIDS everyday, due to lack of knowledge and awareness.

There are also millions of poor Asian fellowmen and women who are affected by AIDS due to poverty and lack of knowledge.

The WHO has to get into action quickly because further spreading of AIDS will lead to loss of precious human lives.


Cycling helps you save Doctor and Gas bill

Filed under :Health

Cycling is one of the safest and easiest way to save on your doctor bill and also gas bill. Sounds funny ?.

Let us understand how ?.

By doing cycling for an hour for all your local activities, you first ensure that you take care of your physical health, even without yourself knowing it. Because , cycling helps you to physically exercise all the critical parts of your body, be it your hands / legs / shoulders / thighs / fingers / lungs etc.

Thus with good physical fitness, enabled by an hour of cycling every day, you end up saving your doctor bill, because your visits will be drastically down with lesser health issues.

The second part now.

By doing cycling for all your local activities, you are avoiding using your car or two wheeler which guzzles up the petrol / diesel for which you need to pay a lot of money.

Cycling helps you, thus, to save on your gas bill too.

So go ahead and start your cycling right away.