Do You Know your Hepatitis B Status?

 

Hepatitis B is a serious disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Infection with this virus can cause scarring of the liver, liver failure, liver cancer, and even death. You can even have hepatitis B and not know it! You won't have symptoms at all. Even if you do, they can make you feel like you have the flu. But as long as you have the virus, you can spread it to others. A mother who has the virus can pass it to her baby during delivery. Hence medical experts recommend that all pregnant women get tested for hepatitis B. 

 

Hepatitis B is spread through contact with the blood and body fluids of an infected person. It is spread by infected blood and other bodily fluids such as semen, vaginal secretions, and open sores. Just like Ebola, HIV. Do you know your Hepatitis B status, guys?

 

Have you ever dealt with someone who tested positive to Hepatitis B before? How did it go? Were there foods he/she avoided during treatment, food supplements he/she took? Can Hepatitis B be cured? I really hope everyone will join this discussion and we would all be sincere in our answers. 

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Eat lunch at your desk? You might not after this: Gross video shows how quickly germs travel from a loo seat to your mouth

You might look at your desk and think it looks pretty clean. 

But a gruesome new video shows how it could be riddled with invisible bacteria all the way from the bathroom - and is easily spread to your hands and mouth.

As one in four office workers fail to wash their hands after going to the loo, anything from the door to the keyboard and computer mouse is covered with millions of bacteria.

In order to avoid getting ill, experts have revealed the best ways to try and remain as germ-free as possible.

Touching the keyboard and then later eating lunch transfers the bacteria from the hands to the mouth 

Flushing the loo without putting the seat down causes a 'sneeze effect', in which bacteria is sprayed all over the cubicle and can cover surfaces as far as 20 feet away

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Bacteria spreads throughout the office. Previous studies have revealed 3,000 organisms per square inch on a keyboard or over 1,600 on a computer mouse

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This Girl's Game of Hide and Seek With Her Dog Will Make Your Heart Grow Three Sizes

  Ready or not, here I come...

Yuletide shaming aside, this video will make you so, so happy:
It’s a little girl named Sierra challenging her dog, a Newfoundland named Sebastien who’s about three times her size, to a game of hide and seek. Sierra hides, Sebastien seeks… View gallery . View gallery .
WATCH: Kids get into the cutest little argument over the weather! Most of the video is Sebastien searching the (very, very clean, despite having a baby and a dog) home — which is more entertaining than it sounds — but eventually, he finds Sierra:

And it’s CUUUUUUTE.

What is Marburg, the Ebola-like virus that killed a health-care worker in Uganda?

A 30-year-old hospital technician died of the Marburg virus this weekend in Uganda, health officials there announced Sunday. Marburg, like Ebola, is a hemorrhagic fever. It's rare but severe.

According to NBC's Monday report, officials in Uganda have quarantined about 80 people who came into contact with the victim, one of whom — the man's brother — has developed the early symptoms of the disease. Sixty of those quarantined are health-care workers.

On Tuesday, Uganda's Ministry of Health said in an emailed statement that testing on 11 potential cases of Marburg came back negative, including that of the victim's brother. Those who still show symptoms similar to Marburg three days from now will be re-tested at that time, the ministry added.

Do you have a close relationship with your mother? If not, you’re more likely to have problems bonding with your own baby

Women with lower levels of 'love hormone' are more likely to have had a dysfunctional relationship with their mother

• Those women tend to experience negative feelings towards their own babies

If you had a dysfunctional relationship with your mother it could mean you are more likely to have problems bonding with your own babies.

Lower levels of the 'love hormone' oxytocin have been found in women who are not close with their own mother, a report suggests.  

Wife's Happiness is More Crucial to Marital Success Than Husband's, Study Finds

Turns out, the old adage “happy wife, happy life” is spot on. When a woman is happily married, her husband’s overall life satisfaction gets a boost, regardless of how he feels about their union, according to a new Rutgers University study, published in the October issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.

The researchers analyzed the marital quality and general well-being of 394 couples who’d been married, on average, for 39 years. (To be included, both spouses had to be at least 50 years old, and one at least 60.) Although overall life satisfaction didn’t significantly differ by gender, the men did tend to report slightly higher marital happiness than their wives did. 

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Good news from Ebola: How Ebola patients survived- Expert

Following the recovery and discharge of the first Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) patient from the isolation centre at the Mainland Hospital in Lagos, facts have emerged as to how the patients are recovering.

Meanwhile, more patients undergoing medical treatment at the centre may be discharged this week, investigations revealed.
Experts, who commented on the development, said although 60-90 per cent of people infected with the Ebola virus die, some people do recover from infection.
“Doctors don’t know for certain who will survive Ebola, and there is no specific treatment or cure for the disease. But studies suggest there are some biological markers linked with a higher chance of surviving Ebola,” the experts say.

Gloria Tumwijuke (with microphone), Alice Ngonzi Isoke (folding 

hands in red dress), Diana Alinaitwe (behind Alice), Mrs Isoke (Alice’s mother), an unidentified health worker(on Gloria’s right) and a granddaughter to Mrs Isoke – all Ebola survivors narrating their ordeal at Kagaadi Hospital during the function to officially declare Uganda Ebola free. Photo courtesy WHO