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Why are men the weaker sex where disease is concerned
Two UK examiners where interested why men are the weaker sex where disease is concerned. They put forward there may be good motivations behind the “man flu” of popular imagination: it could be the consequence of progress where aptitude to pursue adventure and be competitive has given them greater survival benefit than building resistance to disease.
Recent studies have shown that men tend to be more exposed to disease danger than women and when they become infected their warning signs tend to be more severe and longer lasting: this has perhaps led to the so-called “man flu” myth.
These two UK investigators developed a mathematical plan showing why differences between male and female responses to disease may have evolved.
According to the Royal Society, this is the first such plan to take an “ecological” approach to the method infectious agents or pathogens “and their hosts interact by accounting for the effect that immunity has on pathogens and vice-versa”.
Link between sunlight and multiple sclerosis
For almost 30 years, scientists have known that multiple sclerosis is more ordinary in higher latitudes than in the tropics. As sunlight is more abundant near the equator, many scientists have wondered if the high levels of vitamin D engendered by sunlight could put in plain words unusual pattern of frequency.Vitamin D may reduce the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, but in a recent study scientists have declared that the ultraviolet part of sunlight may play a bigger function than vitamin D in controlling MS.Multiple sclerosis is a sore neurological illness caused by deterioration in the nerve’s electrical conduction; approximately 400,000 people have the disabling condition in the United States. In recent years, it’s become clear the immunity systems of patients are destroying the electrical insulation on the nerve fibers.
The ultraviolet portion of sunlight stimulates the body to produce vitamin D, and both vitamin D and the ultraviolet are able to control the immune system and possibly slow MS.
Africa’s hunger faces
At this period of year, the Gadabeji Reserve should be a shelter for the nomadic tribes who migrate across a moonscape on the border of the Sahara in order to graze their cattle. Unfortunately, the grass is so meager that the cattle are too weak to stand and too skinny to be put up for sale, leaving poor people without any chance to buy grain to feed their families.
Thomas Yanga, WFP Regional director for West Africa declared that people had lost crops, and the capacity to cope on their own, and the levels of underfeeding among women and children had already risen to a very high stage and it is by now beyond the danger position.
In Niger, some people say that the growing food crisis could be worse than the one that struck the country in 2005, when aid companies treated tens of thousands of children for famine.
Take care of diabetic pet and you will get healthier
Daniela Trnka had been living with type1 diabetes for about 20 years when she noticed snitch signs of the illness in her Siberian Husky, Cooper. He was thirsty all the time, urinating often and from time to time, lethargic.
So she took out her blood sugar test kit, opened a fresh lancet and took a drop of his blood. Blood glucose levels of Cooper were very high. A veterinarian established that Cooper had diabetes.
Now, Trnka take care of her pet, she monitors blood sugar levels of Cooper and she gives him insulin injections. Caring for her pet, Trnka says that has helped her to pay more attention to her own health.
Taking care of Cooper hasn’t been simple. Even before the Husky was diagnosed with diabetes, he’d had seven knee surgeries and couldn’t walk on his hind legs, so Trnka had to cart him everywhere in a wheelchair.
Girl tests experimental drug after virus kills horse
A 12-year-old girl from Australia and her mother are the first people to try an experimental treatment for a deadly virus after the horse of the girl has died from the infection, researchers said examiners on 28 May.
The virus, called Hendra virus, emerged in Australia in the 1990s and can kill up to 75 percent of people that were infected.
Australian media affirmed that the girl and her mother took the first dose of the drug on Thursday, 27 May.Viruses are carried by a some kind of fruit bat commonly called flying foxes. Current epidemic has caused harsh illness in Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, India and Australia.
The viruses can cause brain swelling and acute respiratory disease.
The monoclonal antibody attaches to the virus and helps deactivate it. Until this week it had only been experienced in animals, but kept them from becoming ill after they were infected with Nipah.