Chicken Pox, a virus known as Varicella, often affects children but if you haven’t been exposed during your childhood, you are still at risk as a teen or even adult. The more advanced your age, generally the rule holds true that the more advanced it coincides with the severity at which you will experience symptoms. Meaning – it is far better to catch the Chicken Pox as a...
Though relatively untalked about Hepatitis B is on the rise and has reached the top of the chart as the number one most common infectious disease in the world affecting more than 2 billion people. Here in the United States the CDC states that 2,000 to 4,000 people die yearly from HBV and related complications. They estimate that as many as 1.4 million here in the United...
ALS is short for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and is also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease because the world-famous baseball player Lou Gehrig famously suffered from it. The disease also got a lot of attention a short time ago because of the “Ice-bucket challenge” that was set up with the intention of raising awareness and donations for research into ALS. ALS is a...
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