Showing posts with label Medicinal Values. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicinal Values. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

HBsAG: Decoding the illness of Hepatitis B

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Have you taken your Hepatitis B Vaccine shots lately?

I am very aware of this dreaded disease since I finished college and after finishing up Clinical Microbiology subject in our junior year on pre-med. Our lecturer was a seasoned professional scientist and researcher and was delighted in discussing this matter about Virology (Study of Viruses) on the latter part of that semester on how it works and how it can affect a life of a ordinary human being. In my opinion, it is far worst than HIV/AIDS if you get in contact and inflicted with such illness. Compared to HIV/AIDS which takes three months to incubate on a window period. Hepatitis B can only take a few days to replicate and even be detected in your blood using lab tests available in the clinical laboratories and hospital. 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Gecko Lizards are not the way to go!

Animals like this so called "Tuko" or Tokay Gecko (in English) are being hunted down for their medicinal values especially by foreigners as cure for HIV/AIDS. As many of our national health officials from the Department of Health and World Health Organization have disproved the claims because there are no scientific evidences yet  on this issue. Too many scams around so don't get fooled with it.
The Department of Environment and National Resources (DENR) are alarmed with the growing loss of this lizards would cause havoc in the balance of our ecosystem. I hope that people would stop this and the lowly will become an endangered species of animals in our land. Stop the illegal trade.

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