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    Buruli Ulcer - Another NTD - Third Most Common Mycobacterial Infection.

    In a recent post about Buruli ulcers, many raised questions and this post is to offer a brief clarification on the issues raised. The disease itself was discovered in 1897 in Buruli (Now Nakasongola District - Uganda) and hence the name. Buruli ulcer is a skin infection that kills the cells and...
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    ⛔BREAKING⛔ Flesh-eating bacteria spreads in Melbourne suburb! 😱 🦠

    Stale news.... This was posted here a long time ago. I remember one parent from SL who was affected and sadly the hand had to be amputated.
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    Intermittent Fasting Slows Hair Growth.

    Studies done on both Mice and Humans show that intermittent fasting is linked with slow hair growth. In the mouse model, the mice were shaved and then fed either one of two intermittent fasting patterns — 16:8 (eight hours eating, 16 hours fasting) or alternate-day fasting — or the control...
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    ක්ෂ්‍ය රෝගය හැදිල බෙහෙත් අරන් හොද උන කෙනෙක්ට Dubai වල IT ජොබ් එකකට යන්න බැරිද?

    They do - unlike the stupid Gulf countries. If you have active TB then you need to take medical treatment first. Then you will be assessed again. If you have Latent TB then you need to follow up after your arrival.
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    Two dead including 'small child' after car ploughs into crowd at German Christmas Market⚡⛔

    Said to be a Saudi Arabian doctor who was in Germany since 2006. :-(
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    👑😎 නයිට් පදවියෙන් (Knighthood) පිදුම් ලැබූ "ක්‍රිස්ටෝපර් නෝලාන්" 🎬👑

    Who are the others? Can think of Sir David Lean, Alexander Korda (Hungarian born, one of the very first who was conferred with a Knighthood), Stephen Frears, Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen (Britsh Director - not the American actor), Sam Mendes......
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    Russia has developed Its Own Cancer Vaccine, to be distributed free of charge form 2025!

    There are cancer vaccines already. Without the full details on how it works and which cancers it works upon, very hard to comment. Is it a Universal cancer vaccine? Let's wait for more details
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    Is this true

    Probably one of the rare truths on Fakebook. :unsure: The Maori's used Kauri for boats, carvings, furniture and other building works. Trees can grow upto 30 - 60 m in height and now NZ controls the harvesting of Kauri. It has moderate dentisty with a dry weight of 540 kg/m3, crushing strength...
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    Recent advances related to Diabetes

    Mt Sinai Researchers Move Closer to a Cure for Diabetes. New research confirms a novel route for human beta cell regeneration. Diabetes researchers and bioinformaticians from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new understanding of how human beta cell regenerative...
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    ⛔BREAKING⛔ යාපනයේ මී උණ වව්නියාව ට ත් පැතිරේ! රෝගීන් 99 ක් දක්වා ඉහළට!

    Copied from an old post...... Aug 27, 2020 Leptospirosis has been in the increase since few years. It has been identified as an emerging problem in our neighbouring countries like India, Thailand, Vietnam & Cambodia too. In these countries the pet dogs are vaccinated. Though there were...
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    ගේ කුරුල්ලන් දහස් ගනනින් මරා දැමිමේ පල විපාක

    This is a fact.... It was the Great Mao Zedong's pest control method.. With his shortsighted killing of the sparrows (several hundred millions of birds killed) resulted in a famine that killed, as some claim to be around 78 million people. The sparrows were the nature's was of controlling other...
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    Johns Hopkins Scientists Rewrite Medical Texts on Brain Cells

    A new study challenges the long-held belief that axons, brain cell extensions, are tube-like. Axons in brain cells resemble a string of pearls rather than smooth tubes, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. This discovery, aided by advanced imaging and modeling, reveals how physical and...
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    WHO sends team to DRC to investigate the mystery illness.

    There has been a further escalation of 147 more cases last week. with one more death. Nearly 42% of the cases have been reported in children younger than 5 years old. The lab in Kinsasha states that thesamples it received on December 7 are poor quality, with blood and serum samples poorly...
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    අදින් පසු රිළවුන්ගේ ලොකුකම් ඉවරයි..රිළව් අල්ලා වඳ කිරීමට වැඩ පටන් ගනී...🔴

    Few weeks ago I read about a Solar Powered HV pads that are not life threatening at all but enough to give them a shock as a deterrent on coconut trees. Someone in India developed it.
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    WHO sends team to DRC to investigate the mystery illness.

    At least the Africans don't hide. The Chinese does the opposite and spreads it around. :ROFLMAO: Anyway out of the Congo samples. of 12, 10 were positive for malaria. More samples will be collected and tested to determine the exact cause. At least for now we know that some of them have...
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    Deadly Virus Samples Go Missing

    It was News everywhere.... The 323 virus samples that went missing from the state virology laboratory was in 2021 after a freezer storing the samples broke down. But the security breach was discovered only in August 2023. Several nasties have been there including Hantavirus, Hendra virus and...
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    පීඑච්ඩී කියන abbreviation එක තමන්ගේ නමට ලියනවානන් ඒක ලියන

    This PHD is different. It's for "Patiently Hoping for a Degree" :unsure:

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