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A NEW DISEASE IN UGANDA AGAIN??? BRUCELLA

By  Abet Tonny
Often confused with malaria, brucella is a reality in Uganda with countless dying unearthed as medical workers remain naïve to the bug. Both malaria and brucella exude cross-cutting signs and symptoms which complicates its clinical diagnosis unless specialized laboratory tests are performed. However, it is a dismay that over 90% of Uganda hospital labs lack these diagnostic tools for brucella.

 People can get the disease when they are in contact with infected animals or animal products contaminated with the bacteria. Animals that are commonly infected include sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, and dogs among others.

Eating undercooked meat or drinking raw dairy milk are the most common ways of transmission, the general human population stand prone here.

Other means of transmission may include breathing in the bacteria that cause brucella and entry of the bactreia through open wounds, veterinary doctors, farm workers and those who slaughter animals in abattoir are at higher risk here.

 Initial symptoms of a typical brucella set of with fever, sweats, malaise, headache, joint and muscle pain but the signs and symptoms that always persist include; recurrent fevers, swelling of the testicles and scrotum area, neurological impairments, swelling of the heart, liver and spleen. Most of these signs and symptoms are the same as that of malaria but the only clear way to contrast is through laboratory diagnosis.

In Africa, the major consequence of being infected with brucella is associated with misdiagnosis subsequent subjection to multiple irrelevant treatments that leaves the patient impertinently financially drained. Brucella is however one of those ailments with least fatality rate ranging between 2-5%, meaning for every 100 people infected with brucella, only around 2 to 5 of them die. This is just in comparison to other diseases like malaria which fatality rate goes as far as 20% (in every 100 people infected with malaria, up to 20 of them always die).

A joint study conducted in Uganda by center for comparative epidemiology of USA and Makerere University College of veterinary medicine put the prevalence of brucella disease at 11% in Uganda. “Human brucellosis is prevalent in both rural and urban Uganda, yet most cases the disease go unnoticed due to no or inaccurate diagnosis. Brucellosis is considered to be the most common zoonotic infection worldwide with over 500,000 cases recorded annually” Catherine kansiime, a lead author in study dubbed annual trends of human brucellosis in pastoralist communities of south western Uganda.  In another study conducted in south western Uganda entitled “Human brucellosis: sero-prevalence in agro-pastoral communities in central Uganda” authored by Gabriel Tumwine found the prevalence of this zoonotic infection to be 17%.

Brucellosis (commonly known as brucella) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria.

The Africa governments should fasten the advancement in the functionality of public health laboratories in the countryside in lines with accessibility by rural communities, equipment, and competence of personnel therein in diagnosing wide array endemic and emerging bugs including the neglected tropical diseases/zoonoses.

WHY EATING GNUTS EXTENDS YOUR LIFESPAN -MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS

By  Abet Tonny

Tongue terrorizing terms like PIRACETAM, DHEA, and VINPOCETINE HYDRERGINE are no alien words to countless people today; for they refer to anti-aging drugs. SEE Top Ten Life Extension Drugs. But first wait a minute, since when did ‘Aging’ eventually dive into befitting the brand of man-perils?

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In her May 2016 study release, Maastricht University Researchers looked at the Netherlands Cohort Study, a study that’s been running for nearly 30 years, to reach their conclusions. They tracked the nut-eating habits of more than 120,000 Dutch people between the ages

 of 55 and 69, analyzing portion size and how often nuts were ingested. The participants self-reported their daily consumption of nuts, peanuts and peanut butter.

The study found that eating this small serving of nuts every day reduced mortality by as much as 23 percent.

 At least 10g a day seems to be the ideal portion size for reaping this newly unearthed benefit.



 But how exactly is this life increment possible? Fine, extravagantly enriched with antioxidants, protein, fibre, essential fats, vitamins and minerals, nuts are some of the best evening grabs as you shoot back home.

 Eating about 10-30 grams (about the quantity that would fit into an egg shell) can do you this health magic. Peanuts contain high levels of multiple poly-phenolic antioxidants that prevent cancer development in the body. The most important polyphenolic antioxidant of greatest body health value is called Resveratol. The peanut is extremely rich in this Resveratol. 

Resveratol has overwhelming functions spanning from protecting your body from all forms of cancer, heart disease, viral and fungal infections to shielding you from the risk of stroke. 

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And finally, what exactly are the Peanuts? Well, peanut (groundnut) is an annual dicotyledonous herb that grows up to a foot above the ground. It is thought to have originated from Central America from where it would later spread to the rest of the world. One of the most grown food and commercial oil-seeds, groundnuts take approximately 120 days to build the miraculous life extending nuts in their fruit pods that patiently lie underground waiting to be uprooted and dried. Each plant often bear 10-15 fruit pods with 2-3 constrictions helplessly revealing the number of seeds/fruits in the pod. A recent study suggests that roasting or boiling the gnuts increase the availability of antioxidants (the major life extending substance) to the body for absorption.

SCIENTISTS UNVEIL THE HIDDEN DRIVING CAUSE OF BREAST CANCER

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death in women worldwide and breast cancer rates are increasing rapidly.
A compelling number of studies, though not all, have shown that free iron concentrations in breast tissue, especially the ductal tissue, is playing a major role in stimulating cancer development and eventual progression to aggressive, deadly cancers.

 Breast cancer affects one in eight women during their lives.

Russell L. Blaylock, MD, CCN surveys this new finding.

Cancers are Very Dependent on Iron

Iron is needed for DNA replication in rapidly dividing cells.³
A recent report from the Department of Biomolecular Sciences in Urbino Italy, found that fluid taken from the nipple of cancer patients contained significantly higher levels of aluminum than did nipple fluid taken from women without breast cancer—approximately twice as much aluminum.⁴
A number of studies have found that extracting nipple fluid by a breast pump (in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women) is a simple way to study the microenvironment of the ductal tissue, the site of development of most breast cancers.⁵
Examining this ductal fluid is an excellent way to measure such things as iron levels, ferritin (an iron-binding protein), CRP (a measure of breast inflammation) and aluminum.
The researchers also found that women with breast cancer had much higher levels of ferritin, an iron transport protein, in their breast fluid, which was 5X higher in women with breast cancer.⁶
This observation has been confirmed in other studies.
In previous studies researchers found that one's intake of iron did not necessarily correlate with risk of breast cancer, but rather the release of iron from its protective proteins, such as ferritin and transferrin was critical.⁷
This distinction is very important and explains why some studies found no link between iron intake in the diet and breast cancer incidence.⁸

Free Iron Can Be Very Dangerous

Over 90% of iron absorbed from your diet is normally bound to these protective proteins. Recent studies have shown that some things we do can cause too much of the iron to be released into surrounding tissues, and if this iron exists as free iron, it can trigger intense inflammation, free radical generation and lipid peroxidation.
Bound iron is relatively harmless.
So, what can cause these protective proteins to release their iron?
One factor is an excessive alcohol intake. Studies by Lee et al have shown that women who drink greater than 20 grams of alcohol a day significantly increase the free iron in their breast tissue and have a higher incidence of invasive breast cancer—the most deadly form.⁹
It has also been shown that excessive estrogen can displace iron from its protective proteins, thus increasing free iron levels and associated breast cancer risk. ¹⁰ This helps explain the link between high estrogen levels and breast cancer.
Of more importance than the total intake of iron is where the iron ends up that is absorbed from your food.
As stated, most of it is bound to protective proteins, such as transferrin in the blood and ferritin within cells. If you have a lot of extra space within these proteins for binding iron, then a high dietary iron intake would be less harmful.
Previously it was thought that a spillover of free iron occurred only when the protective proteins (tranferrin and ferritin) were fully saturated, as we see with the condition hemochromatosis.

How Aluminum and Alcohol Worsen Iron Toxicity

We now know that both aluminum and alcohol can displace the iron from its protective proteins, raising the level of harmful free iron, even when these protective proteins are not fully saturated with iron.⁹
If this occurs within the breast, as this study demonstrates, free iron levels in the breast ductal tissue can become dangerously high and over time induce malignant tumor formation.
The question to be asked is--where did the aluminum come from?
The authors of the paper suggested underarm antiperspirants as a possibility. But, there is another source that is becoming increasingly a problem and that is from vaccine adjuvants.

Vaccines are a Major Source of Aluminum for Many

Many inactivated vaccines contain aluminum salts to boost the immune reaction. Studies have shown that this aluminum is slowly dispersed all over the body and may be concentrated in breast ducts.¹¹
The amount of aluminum in vaccines is tremendous, especially in such vaccines as the anthrax vaccine, hepatitis vaccine and tetanus vaccine.
Since many American children are being exposed to multiple doses of aluminum containing vaccines by the time they are 6 years old, one would expect very high exposures to injected aluminum.
A recent study by Lucija Tomljenovik and Chris Shaw found that a newborn receives a dose of aluminum that exceeds FDA safety limits (5mg/kg/day) for injected aluminum by 20-fold, and at 6 months of age a dose that was 50-fold higher than FDA safety limits.¹²
Aluminum at this young age will accumulate in various tissues and with new vaccine recommendations, children and young adults may be exposed to many more aluminum containing vaccines every year throughout life.
With the ability of aluminum to displace iron from its protective proteins, we may not only see a dramatic increase in breast cancer, but also other iron-related diseases, such as liver degeneration, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes, heart failure and atherosclerosis.¹³ No one is addressing this very real danger.

Exposing Zoonotic Diseases, silent killer causing over 2.2 million deaths annually

“In every 5 diseases blowing up your health, at least 3 of them dawn from animal sources”, this is according to One Health Global Initiative. Animals do harbor manifold parasites that sometimes do cause diseases to them in return. Human-animal interaction is an unavoidable verity; the parasites are always traversing from the harboring animals to humans in various ways as sited below. The parasites always advance cross cutting upshots during the interactions but often, these parasites become very treacherous and virulent once they enter into humans e.g. in cases like Ebola, Marburg and Rabies that are passively harbored and cause no clear disease threats to gorillas, bats and dogs respectively unlike they do once they infiltrate humans. These diseases bred and spread by or from animals to humans (or vice versa) are scientifically termed as Zoonotic diseases (or zoonoses). “Zoonotic diseases account for the 2.2 million deaths each year worldwide with most of the deaths occurring in low and middle income countries in Africa, Asia and South America’s Brazil.” this was according to a study release entitled “Mapping of poverty and Likely Zoonoses” by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). 

Zoonotic diseases have profound collective impact in debilitating the health and productivity more notably in rural communities of developing countries. “Targeting the diseases in the hardest hit countries is crucial to protecting global health as well as reducing severe levels of poverty and illness among the world.”, Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert with the ILRI in Kenya, Africa.

In Uganda, the most outrageous and notorious zoonoses are; brucellosis from milk, bovine/cow TB, Cysticercosis, Rabies, Trypanosomiasis, Ebola, Marburg, Malaria etc. however, most of them fall under neglected diseases that receive little to no attention and funding from the public health unit of the country. 

According to Dr. Monica Monsenero an Epidemiologist at African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) in Uganda, “most zoonoses fall in a gap between public health and animal health. For instance rabies, brucellosis and bovine TB kill a number of Ugandans annually but there is no clear data as no one is paying sober attention to them. Huge economic implications associated with building diagnostic and control means often leave most developing intentionally unbothered. Finally the gap between most disciplines, for instance, the veterinary and medical professionals are trained separately and they each work separately with little to no interaction between them, this complicates the whole desired steps for appropriate response to zoonotic diseases especially in Africa.”

Exclusive of dwellers neighboring park locales that often burgeon in poaching and feasting on game meat, most human infections with zoonoses come from;

1)      Livestock, including pigs, chickens, cattle, sheep and goats.

2)      Pets and rodents like dog, cat and mouse are also inclusive as zoonotic agents.

3)       Vectors like mosquito, tsetse fly, tick, kissing bug and bed bug

Humans contract these zoonoses through:

·         Interaction with fluids from the infected animal (blood, urine, saliva and feces)

·         Eating and drinking products from infected animals (e.g. undercooked meat, game meat,  unpasteurized milk, unwashed fruits/fruits bit by bats, vegetable grown and infected by animal faeces and urine)

·         Being bitten by an infected dog/pet, or vectors like mosquito, tsetse fly, tick or bed bug

These zoonotic diseases include Influenza (commonly known as flu) with a major epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killing over 50 million people. Influenza is a viral disease commonly carried by pigs (swine flu) and chickens (bird flu). In Uganda, a clear occurrence was 2015 swine flu outbreak in southern district of Rakai.  Bubonic plague epidemic in the 1300s that eroded humanity piling corpses from the European streets to deep villages of South Africa, and it is estimated that 75 million lives were lost in the aggressive hand of this plague. Bubonic plague is a disease caused by Yesinia pestis, a parasite carried rodents including cats and transmitted by fleas. In Uganda, the disease is prevalent in northwestern districts of Nebbi and Arua with major outbreak reported in 2011. Rabies kills around 55,000 people globally each year, with most deaths occurring in Asia and Africa. Rabies is caused by a virus often carried by dogs and other wild animals.

In lines with vectors, mosquito is the top culprit causing over 400 million people globally each year, the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. Over 1.2 million people die each year from malaria with children making bulk of the victims. Mosquito also transmit other ailments like Zika virus (a massive burden in South America today), yellow fever, Q-fever and dengue fever during their bites. Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) is transmitted by tsetse fly; however, it is being put under control. Chagas disease is transmitted by triatomes and bed bugs through their feces and bites.

Today, over 35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS globally. HIV is thought to have originated from chimpanzees and other primates in Africa forests. Ebola originated from chimpanzees and gorillas, thousands of lives have been lost in major outbreaks occurring in Africa. “28,637 cases and 11,315 deaths have been reported worldwide” WHO. Marburg virus disease was first identified in 1967 in Germany from infected monkeys imported from Uganda. Both the highly virulent Ebola and Marburg viruses are also carried by bats that always bite fruits eaten by humans and they live in close proximity to humans especially in Africa.

THE UNTOLD SIDE OF SKIN LIGHTENING CREAM

The science magic behind the skin animating effect of these bleaching products can be traced to a rocket substance; I mean the mercury salt ingredient. Mercury salts inhibit the formation of melanin, thus resulting in a thin lighter skin tone. Mercury salts are also used as pesticides (fungicide) for their enormous toxic effects to living things. In early centuries, the Greeks used mercury for placating (i.e. chasing away evil spirits). Other active ingredients that can be found in these skin lightening products may include hydroquinone, and corticosteroids.



According to 20010 World Health Organisation release, at least 77% of Nigerian women
use skin lightening products frequently, so do 59% of women in Togo, 35% of women in South Africa. Nearly 40% of women in china province of Taiwan and Hong Kong, Malaysia, the republic of Korea and Philippines use skin lighteners. In India, at least 61% of cosmetic market consists of skin lightening products. 

A NIGERIAN LADY GOES SKIN CANCER AFTER BLEACHING

However, the little yet documented about the tormenting side effects of these chemicals go beyond danger of kidney damage, damage to the nervous/sense system, skin decolourization and scarring, reduction in skins resistance to bacterial and fungal infections, failure to heal after surgery, intense skin irritations and above all the corroding cancer.





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