flu symptoms
Flu is a very common disease caused by viruses different from those that cause the normal cold and its symptoms?is usually?more severe and?last for longer. A new strain of flu (influenza) is commonly referred to as swine flu, because it is thought to have originated in pigs
Influenza (flu) is a highly contagious infection spread by coughs and sneezes. Contrary to what some people may belief, influenza is not a seasonal flu. The infection can be caught at any time of the year. The reason it is called seasonal flu is because t is more pronounced during the cold or winter season.
Flu causes?a sudden rise in the body temperature, usually followed by headache?and general body aches and pains, feeling of tiredness and often accompanied by sore throat. In addition, some infected people lose their appetite, feel nauseous and have?a cough. In most cases, flu symptoms can make you feel so exhausted and unwell that most infected people would rather stay in bed.
Swine flu symptoms are very similar to?seasonal flu. These are fever or high temperature (over 38?C), aching muscles and sore throat. It may be accompanied by a dry cough. Most infected people will normally recover within a week, even without special treatment.
Flu Pandemic
Swine virus was first identified in Mexico in April 2009. It has since become a pandemic, which means it has spread around the globe. It has spread quickly because it is a new type of?flu virus that few, if any, people have full resistance to.
Flu pandemic is a natural event that occurs from time to time. There had been flu pandemics in 1918, 1957 and 1968 that killed millions of people across the world.?In most cases the virus has proved relatively mild. However, around the world?hundreds of?people have died and it is not yet clear how big a risk the virus is. For this reason, and because all viruses can mutate to become more potent (stronger), scientists are saying we need to be careful.
Most cases of the?swine flu reported so far across the globe have been mild. Only a small number death resulting from serious infections of swine flu has been reported. In any case, these deaths have?often been?in patients?with existing health problems that already weakened their immune systems, such as cancer.
Some people?have suggested that antiviral medication should?only be given to those who are most at risk of developing serious complications from swine flu. In other words, if people are otherwise healthy,?the virus should be treated with?with paracetamol and bed rest until the person is better,?as you would with normal flu. However, some scientists believe that there is still some doubt about the risks of the virus. For example, there are reports of some cases in Argentina where young, healthy adults have become extremely ill from swine flu. Whatever the case, because there is still this doubt, the some authorities offer the antiviral medicines, such as Tamiflu or Relenza, to everyone who is diagnosed with swine flu.
Flu high-risk groups
There are some people that have been identified as being more at risk of serious complications if they catch swine flu. Such group of people should start taking antiviral medication as soon as?it is?diagnosed?that they have?the infection. In other words, doctors should be free to recommend for some high-risk patients to take antiviral medications before they have symptoms, if someone close to them has swine flu.
The group of people already known?that are highly vulnerable to swine flu infection are those who have chronic diseases such as:
- lung disease,
- heart disease,
- kidney disease,
- liver disease,
- neurological disease, such as motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson?s disease,
- immunosuppression and
- diabetes mellitus.
In addition, the following people have been identified to be at risk:
- asthma patients who have had drug treatment in the previous three years,
- pregnant women,
- older people aged 65 and over, and
- children under 5 years.
Preventing swine virus
The most significant way to prevent swine flu is to have?good respiratory and hand hygiene. This requires the affected person or anyone to always?sneeze into?a disposable tissue, and get rid of it in a bin as soon as it is used. There are guidelines available on how to properly wash your hands using soap and water. Also, it is important to keep home and work surfaces clean regularly and thoroughly to kill the virus.
It is always important to bear in mind that flu or influenza is not the same as the normal cold. Also that anything that helps building up your immune system will go a long to helping you to fight of flu.
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When bad boy Rei Kashino and quiet artist Kira Aso start falling for each other at the beginning of Mars, Rei?s former fling Harumi is none too pleased. ?Harumi?s jealousy becomes so intense that she and a group of girls decide to kidnap Kira?so she?ll break up with Rei, or else?they?ll break her fingers. Kira refuses, but at the last second Harumi decides not to do it. Rei threatens?Harumi not to come near Kira again, and not long after Kira becomes friends with Harumi. While the friendship between Kira and Harumi?is highly unrealistic, because Harumi is the only other female character who is in the manga from beginning to end, we see no alternatives to female relationships, which is highly problematic. Although Harumi?s violent threats were treated as horrible, having her attempt to physically harm Kira suggests that females become completely irrational over men ? and this notion is?somewhat ?normalized? because Kira completely forgives her?Harumi for her vindictiveness?without ever addressing the issue.
No list of female rivals would be complete without Sae. At the beginning of Peach Girl, Sae is Momo?s ?best friend,? with a tendency to gossip and copy Momo?s fashion sense. But when Sae finds out Momo has a crush on Toji,?a classmate from middle school, Sae does anything and everything to steal him away.?When Toji ends up in the hospital, Sae convinces her entire class not to tell Momo that he?s sick so she can visit him by herself (and so he can think Momo doesn?t care about him since she hadn?t visited him). Momo and Toji do break up temporarily, but before long they are back together and Sae ends up scheming again. She decides to trick Momo by slipping something in her drink, after which Momo wakes up in a hotel with a model who Sae is manipulating. Sae takes blackmail photos and uses them to get Toji to go out with her, which he miserably agrees to do. Once again, Peach Girl presents female rivals whose relationship only?revolves around men, but what?s interesting is that Sae isn?t even in love with Toji. Sae sends the message that females are obsessed with getting a guy ? any guy ? as a sign of their superiority over other females.?Sae is considered the ultimate bitch is shojo manga ? she has no redeeming qualities and the audience is made to hate her, which is unfortunately the fate of many female characters in the?media.?Sae?s machinations?also imply that women are incredibly shallow ? not only is Sae obsessed with taking down?Momo, but in being fawned over (she even briefly becomes a model to attain this goal).?Thus, Peach Girl sends the message that the only role women serve in each others? lives is to make each other miserable.
Not long after realizing her own feelings for her popular classmate Kazehaya, Sawako soon discovers that another girl likes him: Kurumi. Kurumi?notices before anyone else does how Kazehaya looks at Sawako, and?she asks Sawako to give?up on him. Sawako refuses, but surprisingly the two?develop a sort-of friendship. Since both love Kazehaya they end up talking about their crushes,?and when?Sawako and Kazehaya?finally start dating each other?both she and the audience can?t help but feel sorry for?Kurumi. Because Kurumi isn?t outright cruel in her treatment of Sawako the way many other female rivals are, she comes across as sympathetic, especially since her feelings for Kazehaya were genuine. Furthermore, because Kimi ni Todoke highlights the friendship between Sawako, Yano, and Chizu, there is a range of female interactions and personalities that are presented beyond Kurumi?s character.?Thus, although Kurumi and Sawako?s relationship is initiated by their common interest of a man, Kimi ni Todoke takes a step in the right direction by fleshing out the female rival.
His and Her Circumstances? protagonist Yukino is the smartest and most popular girl in school, to the envy of her classmate Maho. Like Yukino, Maho?has always?been the center of attention and loves being praised, and she convinces the other girls in her class to start ignoring Yukino so she can reclaim her throne.?Her plan fails, however, and soon Yukino helps her realize that there?s more to life than being number one ? like having good friends.?One thing I appreciate is that Maho?s rivalry with?Yukino is not about men at all. While her reasons for hating Yukino?(or actually, loving, since she wishes to be like Yukino) are still superficial, His and Her Circumstances at least shows how important it is to have close female friends by showing that Yukino was missing something from her life without them.?And unlike other female rivals who try to bring each other down, once Maho becomes friends with?Yukino they try to?help each other correct their old ways and start focusing on new goals, which is a refreshing change to?the sadly combative female dynamic that is typically shown not just in shojo manga, but in?media in general.
Wouldn?t it be nice if there was a final list of what the courts say are ?reasonable? accommodations under the disability laws? Employers are truly confused about how far they must legally go to accommodate disabled employees. Well, grab your pencil and the list. One court recently added a new one. And it?s a shocker ?
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Buying a cheap wireless router, like an Apple Airport Express or an old Linksys WRT54G and setting it up as a wireless bridge is probably the fastest and easiest way to give any space with a wired connection an instant wireless network. Bridge mode means that instead of managing the traffic on your LAN, like most routers do, it's just sharing your existing LAN?that is, the hotel or dorm room's network?among a few specific devices over the air. Photo by Ryoichi Tanaka.
Warning: In most dorms, adding a wireless router is against your campus IT department's usage rules, and may get you in trouble if you're busted. I worked in campus IT for my alma mater several years ago, and every single year we inevitably had some freshman somewhere on campus who hooked up a router to their room's ethernet jack, misconfigured it, and their router started acting like the gateway for every computer on their local LAN?which meant no one in the building or on the floor could connect to the internet. They all called us to complain, and we had to track the unlucky kid down and pull out his router. Photo by webhamster.
If you have a smartphone with a data plan, tethering has never been a better option. Verizon and AT&T now include tethering in the costs of their base plans, and as long as you don't go over your bandwidth limits for the month, you're in the clear. If your wi-fi needs are occasional, like the occasional game or web surfing on your tablet, or you want to use your laptop from bed and your cable doesn't reach, it's a good option. If you're trying to connect a dozen devices like game consoles, smart TVs, multiple tablets and laptops, and more to the internet, it's not going to work too well. Photo by Danny Choo.
If you have money to spend and you don't want to run afoul of your campus (or hotel!) IT department, buying a 3G/4G USB modem or shared access point like a MiFi is definitely the way to go. Those devices usually come with generous monthly data plans (in some cases, up to 10GB/mo,) and allow you to connect multiple devices at the same time.
Whichever option you choose, make sure you set up your wireless network as securely as possible. Remember that WEP is extremely easy to crack and WPA is stronger, but not impossible to crack, so a combination of WPA2, a good strong password for your network, and access controls for specific devices (MAC Address filtering alone is so insecure it's not worth mentioning, but when used together with strong passwords and WPA2, it offers another layer of protection and teaches you to get familiar with the MAC addresses for your gadgets?that way you know if the MAC for your Xbox is online and you can see it's turned off, someone's spoofing it) is the way to keep your fledgling network secure.
