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Nipah virus treatment and Symptoms.

  Nipah virus treatment   It is a deadly viral disease spread by bats is infecting humans, but in this case, it isn’t Ebola. As on June 1, an outbreak of the Nipah virus has infected about 18 people and killed 17 in Kerala, India, as reported by World Health Organization (WHO) . The outbreak, which is the first to hit South India, raises fears of the disease becoming more far-reaching. Nipah was discovered in 1998, when it infected nearly about 350 people and killed 110 in Malaysia (its name was taken from one of the villages where it first struck). Many of the victims was farmers who are infected by virus through close contact with their pigs, which led to the euthanization of millions of pigs. But not only the pigs actually got the virus  another animals too. It’s now known that fruit bats also called flying foxes are the native carriers of Nipah. Besides Malaysia, Nipah cases have been reported in Singapore, Bangladesh, and India. These ou...

Is Magnet therapy real.

Magnet therapy Introduction Magnetic therapy is an  medical practice that uses  magnets to relieve pain and other health issues. The magnets are generally embedded into bracelets, rings, shoe inserts, mattresses and clothing . According many well-conducted studies over the past few decades have shown that static magnetic devices have no effects on general physiological condition. These studies suggest that the magnetic therapy devices may have placebo effect on those who wear/ use them. Despite a lack of scientific evidence to support claims that  magnetic therapy devices work, wearable magnets devices  remain extremely popular. Global sale of therapeutic magnets is about approx $1 billion a year. History Magnetic therapy dates back at least 2,000 years, when Folk healers in Europe and Asia are believed to have used magnets to to treat a variety of ailments and believe that magnet pulls disease out of body. Now a days people believe that therapeutic...