Month: December 2011

Increasing cases of measles in Europe with 26,000 between January and October

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Geneva, 2 Dec (EFE).-Europe faces numerous outbreaks of measles and in the first ten months of the year there were 26,000 cases in 36 countries, of which 83 per cent in Western Europe, where reported nine deaths and more than 7,000 hospitalizations, reported today the who.

The World Health Organization (who) pointed out that the spread of measles has serious consequences for public health and the economy and urged European countries to prevent new outbreaks in 2012, through immunization campaigns to reach adults and adolescents (seven out of ten infected has more than ten years).

These are the two groups including measles has spread more easily (90 per cent of cases), by which the organization recommended vaccination of children born after 1980 who have not been immunized or who did not receive the reinforcement recommended.

The European country most affected by measles is France, where there were six of the nine deaths caused this year by the disease, highly contagious.

Who stated that preventive measures must be taken quickly, before the proximity of the typical season for the transmission of measles, which runs from February to may.

The level of spread that this year it has been observed in Europe only is behind in the same period in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where there were 100,000 cases.

However, European cases outweigh the 15,000 who were detected together in Nigeria and Somalia.

Moreover, the high circulation of the virus of measles in Europe is more concerned because it is associated to outbreaks in countries in other regions, such as Brazil, Canada and Australia.

Is also responsible for – along with imported cases in Asia — in most cases in United States, where so far for 2011 has been the largest number of persons infected with measles since 1996.

As recommended by who, the priority is the immunization of the main groups of risk.

Also suggests that young children in day care are vaccinated at nine months instead of twelve, as usual.

The organization stressed that controlling the spread of measles is extremely costly and gave as an example the case of a person with this disease who travelled in 2008 of Switzerland to us and which resulted in seven cases in Arizona.

The situation affected two hospitals and the containment and prevention measures that had to adopt cost 800,000 dollars, amount that would have enabled buy 2.5 million doses of vaccines for developing countries. EFE

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Russia takes the witness to us ferries in space crisis

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Ignacio Ortega

Moscow, 2 nov (EFE).-Russia regained the prominence space thanks to the retirement of the ferries us in crisis of its programme of releases, with repeated failures that cast doubt on its ability to supply the platform orbital.

“The Soyuz are absolutely reliable.” We have not ceased to evolve. The Russian ships guarantee all the needs of the international space station (ISS) “, assured Efe Vitali Davídov, Deputy Director of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos).

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Half a century after the feat of the first Cosmonaut of history (1961), Yuri Gagarin, the Soyuz piloted ships they again assumed the leadership of the space race, while U.S. takes a breather and China continues to make progress in solo.

“It is true that we won’t relay for several years and this is a big responsibility, but we have about thirty Soyuz and cargo Progress in operation or under construction,” commented.

Davídov responded well to the reservations raised by some American experts about the dangers of the Soyuz not available in the coming years of alternative on their voyages to the orbital platform after landing in July of the shuttle Atlantis.

Russian ships, which suffered two disasters with casualties in 1967–on its first manned flight – and 1971, which killed four cosmonauts have not registered any serious accident since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

While fourteen American astronauts were killed in the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in 1986, and Columbia in 2003.

However, everything is turned with the accident at the end of August by the cargo ship Progress 12-M, which crashed shortly after take-off and just when these automatic buildings depended fully on the operation of the ISS.

Although it is true that it was its first crash in more than 30 years of history of the Russian Progress concern spread in Russia, NASA and also in the own orbital, platform which hosted then six tenants.

Roscosmos leggy to deny that the accident could endanger life on the space station, but by caution suspended launches of rockets carrying Soyuz and changed the schedule of flights for the next few months.

This he joined loss in December 2010 of three satellites of the Russian orbital navigation system GLONASS, called to compete with the American GPS and cost him the post to the previous head of Roscosmos.

Automatic interplanetary station Phobos-Grunt, called to be the first to settle on the surface of one of the moons of Mars to collect Martian dust, was released on November 8, but could not leave Earth’s orbit.

Today experts have failed to re-establish contact with the station, which intended to study the early solar system matter and that could fall on the Earth at the beginning of the next year.

Of Ígor Lisov, director of the magazine “News of Cosmonautics” opinion is that the station was designed and built with serious defects. “From the command system to supply and no programme took into account the communication with the spacecraft in low orbits”.

Lisov explains that between the fall of the USSR and 2007 the Russian space program “had State funding below the minimum of subsistence”, and that the recent increase of the investment will not notice the quality of the work up within five years.

Added to this is: “the ageing of the specialists, obsolescence of equipment, the cessation of the production of some components and materials, and the stoppage in certain fields of cosmonautics”, added.

After numerous delays and meticulous testing, Russia resumed in late October releases Progress with 2.5 load vital to the astronauts of the ISS, which was greeted with relief by the whole world.

To be confirmed that the rocket Soyuz-U carrier worked normally, launched the Soyuz TMA-22 with three crew members on board, which is acoplaron to the platform in November, so everything returned to normal in the orbital platform.EFE

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NASA invites you to explore the giant asteroid Vesta with a video in 3D

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Washington, 1 Dec (EFE).-the world of three dimensions has become fashionable in the cinema and NASA wanted to join this new practice with a video of the giant asteroid Vesta prepared with data sent by the Dawn probe that orbits it since July 15.

To view the video, which is available on the website of NASA, the user will need to use the traditional red and blue glasses to help adjust the view of this format.

“If you want to know how is to explore a new world as Vesta, this new video gives everyone the opportunity to see for himself”, said Ralf Jaumann of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and director of the team which produced the video.

“Scientists study carefully these images to find out more about how created craters, mountains and the grooves”, pointed out.

The images were taken when Dawn approached the asteroid giant and made the first orbit of recognition at a distance of 2,700 kilometres.

Video offers a global of Vesta from the plane of its Equator view, where you can see a “mysterious” band of ridges and valleys linear.

Virtual tour by Vesta leads users to explore the young craters in the northern hemisphere, whose particular alignments has led scientists to refer to them as the “snow man”.

The journey continues around a giant mountain at the South Pole of the asteroid, which is 25 kilometres from high, or what is the same, more than twice Mount Everest, the highest on Earth with a height of 8,848 meters above sea level.

The Dawn probe was launched in September 2007 and reached Vesta July 15 this year. Its mission will be to study the asteroid for one year to continue his journey in July 2012 to the dwarf planet Ceres, where he is expected to arrive in 2015.

This project involves the Center JPL for the direction of scientific missions of NASA in Washington, the Marshall Center’s flight space in Huntsville, Alabama, the University of California (UCLA) and company Orbital Sciences Corporation, which designed and built the spacecraft space.

Are also part of the mission team the German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for the investigation of the Solar system, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Institute for Astrophysics. EFE

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The child population of Vilassar de Mar presented less overweight and obesity than the Catalan media.

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Children of Vilassar de Mar presented less overweight and obesity than the average catalana.

a joint study from the Health Department of the Town Hall of sea Vilassar and the Institute for research in primary care (IDIAP Jordi Gol) analyzes the overweight and obesity of young school between 6 and 12 years.

Spain, 2011-December It’s a descriptive, cross-sectional study in students of 1 ° to 6 ° of primary 5 schools of Vilassar de Mar (Barcelona). In schools it weighed and measured all the students included in the study and was also reach parents questionnaire on healthy lifestyle habits and feeding them both of their children.

Results

They measured and weigh a total of 929 students, representing 87 per cent of the total number of pupils of primary of Vilassar de Mar… Also moved a questionnaire on nutrition and healthy lifestyle habits that completed 774 students, i.e., 72.5 per cent of the total number of students of Vilassar de Mar.

The results show that the prevalence of overweight was 37.9%, overweight was 23 per cent while the prevalence of obesity was 14.9%.

This prevalence of overweight and obesity, both boys and girls, is lower than it has the whole Catalan child population according to the ALADDIN 2011 study carried out by the Spanish Agency for food safety and nutrition. According to this study in Catalonia 42.5 per cent of the children are overweighta 25.7% presents overweight and 16.8 per cent suffers from obesity.

Among the children studied in Vilassar de Mar, the features that are associated with a higher prevalence of overweight were: have a smoker mother and a father or a mother with overweight and / or obesity. While the characteristics associated with a higher prevalence of obesity in children was: being young, having a less than 40-year-old mother, and having a father or a mother overweight and / or obesity. In the same way, also has been observed that smoking parents are more likely to have children with low weight at birth but with overweight and obesity in school-age.

According to the DRA. Roser Vallès, researcher of the project “the relationship between fathers smoking and overweight prevalence could be linked to unhealthy lifestyles, as well as the relationship with overweight and obesity of the fathers”. For Dr.. Vallès “study we pointed out that the child population of Vilassar de Mar presented a prevalence of overweight and less than the Catalan average obesity and that encourages us while”, ends up telling us “should be further integrated efforts of the different social agents (Town Hall, school, health, etc…)” to promote prevention and health promotion at all levels “.

“what the IDIAP?

The Foundation Jordi Gol i Gurina was created in 1996 by the Catalan Health Institute, with the aim of promoting and managing innovation, training, teaching and research clinical, epidemiological and health services in the field of primary health care.

2006, Became the Institute for research in primary care Jordi Gol (IDIAP Jordi Gol), and the 2010 admits to the UAB as a University Institute of research in primary care.

From August 2011 has the quality certification ISO 9001: 2008 for its support and advisory activities to project of investigació.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips