Archive for May, 2009

Swine Flu

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Swine flu is a disease began in North-central Mexico and started spread to the United States and other neighbor countries. Now it spreads all over the world. Till that, thousands of people have died and thousands of people are in critical condition. Scientists found that it is a new H1N1 swine flu virus. Day by day, the death rate is still rising. This animal strained H1N1 virus has the potential of infecting people. Generally there are three kinds of viruses: A, B and C. Among the three, a kind has come into existence. The Swine Flu spreads vigorously all over the world because of no vaccine was found. To find a vaccine, Scientists should have to find what type of virus it is. Then only they can find proper medicine. Recently it was found that the ‘Tulasi’ has the capacity to cure Swine Flu. Tulasi is one of the important herbs grow in India.

Swine Flu H1N1 virus uses air as a medium to transmit from one person to another. So, people advised to use mouth masks in stampede. A mouth mask costs Rs.20. However, it still emerges as a major problem to the government. It still takes so many steps such as medical checking in Airports and other public areas, etc.

Health Education

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Health Education is very must to everyone in this world to make our future generation healthy. So only, World Health Organization gives more concentration towards health education. Only through education we can lead a healthy life. Researchers estimated that most of the season diseases affect the uneducated people than the educated people. Similarly, most of the educated people got obese. Because of, spending too much of time in watching television and working on computer. But, the physical workers are not getting obese. Diabetes is one of the major diseases in the world. Till there are so victims exist all over the world. To control it, we are in need of diabetes education. Also we can organize some awareness program for to control it. Those who are all affected by the disease diabetes should have some knowledge in diabetes. We can get the awareness from our local diabetes centre or from nearer hospital.

Apart from all, it is good learning prevention methods than the curing methods. Then only we can be escaped from the diseases. It is necessary to utilize the opportunities provided by the government to learn about the different types diseases. Every day we can see so many health awareness programs in our local area. We all should have a visit on there to lead a healthy life.