The Zombie Disease

In disconcerting news, a third victim has now come forward claiming to be suffering from the flesh-eating disease that has already claimed limbs and appendages from Georgia college student Aimee Copeland.
32-year old Robert Vaughn says he was working on a landscape project for work when he suddenly felt terrible, focused pain in his groin area before getting violently ill.
“Just godawful pain in my groin area. It’s hard to walk, hard to sit down, it just hurt, hurt all in my back,” he said.
Vaughn was rushed to the hospital–to the very area where Aimee Copeland was suffering from the bacteria in intensive care, in fact–and was told he had a form of the disease. Doctors removed 2 1/2 pounds of dead flesh from his leg, but say that it is very, very rare for someone to have contracted the bacteria without having an open wound somewhere on their body. Vaughn says he believes he picked it up in the brush he was landscaping.
The bacteria, which is similar to the one that causes strep throat, usually only causes stomach upset and is most often found in warm water, such as a lake or river. Aimee Copeland contracted it when she cut her leg in a zip-line accident on the Tallapoosa River on May 1st. The second case was reported just two weeks later, in a South Carolina woman who had just given birth to twins.
Doctors are still stumped as to why there’s been a sudden influx of such a rare form of the bacterial infection, and say simple safeguards against it are washing hands frequently, taking care when in warm freshwater areas, and cleaning wounds immediately, even if they don’t appear to be that bad.

The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli. Since the late 19th century, zombies have acquired notable popularity, especially in North American and European folklore.

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The Secrets of Haiti’s

Living Dead

http://windward.hawaii.edu/facstaff/dagrossa-p/articles/secretesofhaitislivingdead.pdf

The Black Death !!!!!! Disease that showed no hope

The Black Death, or The Black Plague, was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history. It probably began in Central Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at 75 million people; there were an estimated 20 to 30 million deaths in Europe alone. The Black Death is estimated to have killed between one-third and two-thirds of Europe’s population.

The plague occured in three interrelated forms. The bubonic variant (the most common) derives its name from the swellings or buboes that appeared on a victim's neck, armpits or groin. These tumors could range in size from that of an egg to that of an apple. This was the most painful part of the disease. There were evidences saying that people were shouting with affliction.

Infected fleas that attached themselves to rats and then to humans spread this bubonic type of the plague. A second variation - pneumonic plague - attacked the respiratory system and was spread by merely breathing the exhaled air of a victim. It was much more virulent than its bubonic cousin - life expectancy was measured in one or two days. Finally, the septicemic version of the disease attacked the blood system.

Having no defense and no understanding of the cause of the pestilence, the men, women and children caught in its onslaught were bewildered, panicked, and finally devastated. Death was rampant.

Mass Burials "The plight of the lower and most of the middle classes was even more pitiful to behold. Most of them remained in their houses, either through poverty or in hopes of safety, and fell sick by thousands. Since they received no care and attention, almost all of them died. Many ended their lives in the streets both at night and during the day; and many others who died in their houses were only known to be dead because the neighbours smelled their decaying bodies. Dead bodies filled every corner. Most of them were treated in the same manner by the survivors, who were more

Citizens of Tournai bury plague victims. These are fortunate to have coffins. Most victims were interred in mass graves

concerned to get rid of their rotting bodies than moved by charity towards the dead. With the aid of porters, if they could get them, they carried the bodies out of the houses and laid them at the door; where every morning quantities of the dead might be seen. They then were laid on biers or, as these were often lacking, on tables. Such was the multitude of corpses brought to the churches every day and almost every hour that there was not enough consecrated ground to give them burial, especially since they wanted to bury each person in the family grave, according to the old custom. Although the cemeteries were full they were forced to dig huge trenches, where they buried the bodies by hundreds. Here they stowed them away like bales in the hold of a ship and covered them with a little earth, until the whole trench was full."

 

New and Deadly Strains of Tuberculosis

Health-care officials are increasingly concerned about emerging new forms of drug-resistant TB. According to the WHO, outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis are showing up all over the world and threaten to touch off a worldwide epidemic of virtually incurable tuberculosis.
Drug-resistant strains have appeared in New York City prisons, a hospital in Milan, Italy, and many places in between. "Everyone who breathes air, from Wall Street to the Great Wall of China, needs to worry about this risk," says Dr. Arata Kochi, director of the WHO Global TB program.
An October 1997 survey by the WHO, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease estimates that 50 million people are infected with a strain of TB that is drug-resistant. Many of those are said to carry multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis-incurable by two or more of the standard drugs. In underdeveloped countries, where the vast majority of multi-drug-resistant TB cases have occurred, it is usually fatal.
"The world is becoming smaller and the TB bugs are becoming stronger," Dr. Kochi says. "While international travel has increased dramatically, the world has been slow to realize the implications for public health. Only recently have wealthy governments begun to recognize that the poor TB treatment practices of other countries are a threat to their own citizens."
The WHO study identifies hot zones of untreatable tuberculosis that threaten a worldwide crisis. These zones are home to nearly 75 percent of the world's TB cases and include Russia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and Zaire.
Many of the hot zones are regional centers for travel, immigration and international economic activity. WHO officials admit that little can be done to prevent people infected with drug-resistant TB from traveling and spreading the bacilli to other countries.
According to the WHO, one third of the world's nations have a strain of TB resistant to multiple drugs. Untreatable cases account for 2 to 14 percent of the world's total. That number is low, but the WHO said lethal tuberculosis could spread rapidly because only one in 10 patients gets medical care that could overcome drug resistance.
Drug-resistant strains of TB develop when patients do not complete the course of treatment, fail to take their medicine or don't use medication properly. Tuberculosis often can be cured with a combination of four drugs taken for six to nine months. But some patients may begin to feel better after just two to four weeks of treatment, so they stop their medication. But not enough of the medication has been taken to kill all the TB bacteria in the patient. The remaining bacteria survive and mutate, becoming a tenacious, more deadly form of the disease.
TB can be diagnosed in several ways. Chest X rays can reveal evidence of active tuberculosis pneumonia, or they may show scarring, suggesting contained inactive TB. Examination of sputum under the microscope can show the presence of tuberculosis bacteria. A sample of the sputum can also be grown in special incubators, and tuberculosis bacteria can subsequently be identified.
Several types of skin tests are used to screen for TB. Tuberculin skin tests include the Mantoux test, the Tine test and the PPD. In each of these tests, a small amount of dead tuberculosis bacteria is injected under the skin. If a person is not infected with TB, no reaction at the site of the injection will become apparent. However, if a person has become infected with tuberculosis, an area around the site of the test injection will redden and swell. This reaction occurs 48 to 72 hours after the injection.

List of rare diseases!!

List of Rare Diseases

Acrocephalosyndactylia  Acrodermatitis  Addison Disease  Adie Syndrome  Alagille Syndrome  Amylose  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis  Angelman Syndrome  Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia  Arnold-Chiari Malformation  Arthritis, Juvenile Rheumatoid  Asperger Syndrome  Bardet-Biedl Syndrome  Barrett Esophagus  Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome  Behcet Syndrome  Bloom Syndrome  Bowen's Disease  Brachial Plexus Neuropathies  Brown-Sequard Syndrome  Budd-Chiari Syndrome  Burkitt Lymphoma  Carcinoma 256, Walker  Caroli Disease  Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease  Chediak-Higashi Syndrome  Chiari-Frommel Syndrome  Chondrodysplasia Punctata  Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction  Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis  Craniofacial Dysostosis  Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome  Crohn Disease  Cushing Syndrome  Cystic Fibrosis  Dandy-Walker Syndrome  De Lange Syndrome  Dementia, Vascular  Dermatitis Herpetiformis  DiGeorge Syndrome  Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder  Duane Retraction Syndrome  Dupuytren Contracture  Ebstein Anomaly  Eisenmenger Complex  Ellis-Van Creveld Syndrome  Encephalitis  Enchondromatosis  Epidermal Necrolysis, Toxic  Facial Hemiatrophy  Factor XII Deficiency  Fanconi Anemia  Felty's Syndrome  Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic  Fox-Fordyce Disease  Friedreich Ataxia  Fusobacterium  Gardner Syndrome  Gaucher Disease  Gerstmann Syndrome  Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia  Glycogen Storage Disease Type I  Glycogen Storage Disease Type II  Glycogen Storage Disease Type IV  Glycogen Storage Disease Type V  Glycogen Storage Disease Type VII  Goldenhar Syndrome  Guillain-Barre Syndrome  Hallermann's Syndrome  Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple  Hartnup Disease  Hepatolenticular Degeneration  Hepatolenticular Degeneration  Hereditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathy  Hirschsprung Disease  Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis  Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell  Hodgkin Disease  Horner Syndrome  Huntington Disease  Hyperaldosteronism  Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal  Hypopituitarism  Inappropriate ADH Syndrome  Intestinal Polyps  Isaacs Syndrome  Kartagener Syndrome  Kearns-Sayre Syndrome  Klippel-Feil Syndrome  Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome  Kluver-Bucy Syndrome  Korsakoff Syndrome  Lafora Disease  Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome  Landau-Kleffner Syndrome  Langer-Giedion Syndrome  Leigh Disease  Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome  Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell  Li-Fraumeni Syndrome  Long QT Syndrome  Machado-Joseph Disease  Mallory-Weiss Syndrome  Marek Disease  Marfan Syndrome  Meckel Diverticulum  Meige Syndrome  Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome  Meniere Disease  Mikulicz' Disease  Miller Fisher Syndrome  Mobius Syndrome  Moyamoya Disease  Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome  Mucopolysaccharidosis I  Mucopolysaccharidosis II  Mucopolysaccharidosis III  Mucopolysaccharidosis IV  Mucopolysaccharidosis VI  Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1  Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy  Muscular Atrophy, Spinal  Neuroaxonal Dystrophies  Neuromyelitis Optica  Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses  Niemann-Pick Diseases  Noonan Syndrome  Optic Atrophies, Hereditary  Osteitis Deformans  Osteochondritis  Osteochondrodysplasias  Osteolysis, Essential  Paget Disease Extramammary  Paget's Disease, Mammary  Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative  Papillon-Lefevre Disease  Paralysis  Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease  Pemphigus, Benign Familial  Penile Induration  Pericarditis, Constrictive  Peroxisomal Disorders  Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome  Pick Disease of the Brain  Pierre Robin Syndrome  Pigmentation Disorders  Pityriasis Lichenoides  Polycystic Ovary Syndrome  Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune  Prader-Willi Syndrome  Pupil Disorders  Rett Syndrome  Reye Syndrome  Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome  Sandhoff Disease  Sarcoma, Ewing's  Sjogren's Syndrome  Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome  Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome  Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood  Sturge-Weber Syndrome  Sweating, Gustatory  Takayasu Arteritis  Tangier Disease  Tay-Sachs Disease  Thromboangiitis Obliterans  Thyroiditis, Autoimmune  Tietze's Syndrome  Togaviridae Infections  Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome  Tourette Syndrome  Uveomeningoencephalitic Syndrome  Waardenburg's Syndrome  Wegener Granulomatosis  Weil Disease  Werner Syndrome  Williams Syndrome  Wilms Tumor  Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome  Wolfram Syndrome  Wolman Disease  Zellweger Syndrome  Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome  von Willebrand Diseases