Archive for April, 2010

Rabies is a dreadful disease transmitted to the humans by the bite of animals especially dogs which are infected by rabies virus. In some situations rabies can be transmitted even by the bite of other animals like cats, monkeys, foxes, jackals, wolves and mongoose. The saliva of the animal is the main source of rabies infection.
Rabies can be transmitted by the contact with the injured skin. The rabies virus takes nearly 10 days to more than one year as its incubation period. The prevention for the affect of rabies is Pasteur vaccine which is administered in the form of 14 injections in the stomach or human diploid cell vaccine in the form of five injections in the thighs or hands.

Some of the symptoms of rabies are severe headache, fever with alternating stages of excitement and depression and a severe muscular spasm in the throat and chest. The dogs which cause rabies are mainly of two types the furious and the dumb one. The furious bites people without any provocation and begins to eat non eatables like mud and stick. Whereas the dumb selects a lonely site and remains in a state of sleep and dies.
We must be careful with these two types of dogs in order to be safe from rabies.

The disease polio or polymyelitis is known from ancient times. It is mainly caused by one of the smallest known virus called polio virus. It generally enters the body through food or water and ultimately reaches the central nervous system through lymphatic system and blood stream. Polio is a kind of paralysis disease. The effect of the paralysis is more on the limbs especially on the legs. Mostly children between the age group of six months and three years are prone to polio infection. The mild infection in the early life of a person may develop immunity in the adult. Some of the ways in which the polio is transmitted among children is by faeco-oral route, through direct contact, dirty hands, contaminated food or milk and flies.

The symptoms in mild cases of polio may last for few days. But in severe paralytic type cases the fever is sustained for a longer time along with headache, vomiting. And convulsions followed by paralysis of limbs. Generally polio is diagnosed in a child by fever accompanied by restlessness, followed by stiffness of the neck and drowsiness.

Isolation of the diseased, immunization and improvement in sanitation are some methods for the control and prevention of polio. Nowadays the ORAL POLIO VACCINE(ORL) is given orally to children as per the National Immunisation Schedule in our country.

“Nothing is Impossible” is a motivational statement. But this has become the secret mantra for success
in the present day ad industry. There have been a lot of ads for promoting a wide variety of products
Ranging from soaps to expensive automobiles which expects a “Throw your common sense away and
watch” kind of attitude from the receiving end. It is a practical reality that there are people who get
carried away by such ads and suffer later thereby making these ads achieve their purpose. Gone are the days when ads were in-between shows but the present day scenario has just turned the vice-versa!!

On the flipside of it, this vast growing sector has been a treasure house of jobs for those people gifted with a lot of creativity. The latest “ZOO ZOO” series and Airtel’s ads based on relationships and connecting people has taken the industry by a storm. The cut throat competition and “ad- rivalry” kind of atmosphere has become an advantage for the consumers to compare and choose the better than the best. However zooming out at large there are two kinds of sub classifications one who earn the benefits
and the one who suffer and it is quite sad to see that the former has grown stronger over the latter which makes the sufferings to get dissipated among the benefits. At extreme cases, even loss of life has been reported due to a minor mistake in the choice of products!
So, a lot of awareness programs have to be created about the consumer rights. The phrase” think twice before you decide…..” has to be kept in mind as once lost is lost forever. However it would not be wrong to conclude that whatever consumer-friendly changes comes sufferings will continue unless the
consumer community makes use of their common sense and their “uncommon“ sense as well ! !

Ragging is any misconduct which has the effect of teasing or handling any student with rudeness which in turn can cause annoyance, harm or can raise fear in a junior (student) affecting his mental health.
A report provided by an Indian anti-ragging activist group Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education (CURE) analyzed 64 ragging cases and found that over 60% of these were physical ragging, and 20% were sexual in nature. This provides a solid proof that ragging which is usually practiced by seniors just
for fun end up instilling fear in the minds of those being ragged.
Slowly over the past few decades this has become a part of the culture of the college culture. Ragging can be classified into many levels. It ranges from doing it just for the sake of doing it or purely for fun to seniors taking revenge over the juniors usually for quite silly reasons. Some of the common conventions of funny ragging are asking juniors to swim on land, dance, sing or even to ask a lift to an aeroplane flying overhead. These are completely harmless and are meant to be taken in a lighter vein.
But the extreme kind of it is dangerous where seniors go to the juniors’ hostel rooms and torture them physically by beating them to bruises. Sometimes when things go beyond a limit seniors turn oppressors which can even result in a junior being killed.
So, it is the duty of college institutions to take severe steps to prevent this sort of havoc to students.
Seniors on the other hands must never resort to such practices and at the most should stop with the funny part of it. Even slight changes in the present day education system like introducing value education and teaching students to handle situations can make wonders in stopping this evil.