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Strange Diseases You Did Not Know
1. Porphyria: This disorder is also called the "Vampires Disease" because people who suffer from it exhibit symptoms much like how vampires are usually portrayed in movies:
They suffer from oversensitivity to sunlight.
Garlic gives them severe abdominal pains.
Their gums recede giving them the appearance of fangs.
Porphyria occurs when there is a build-up of chemicals called porphyrins in the body as a result of disruption in the production of heme, which is an iron-rich component of the haemoglobin.
Porphyria cannot really be cured but can be managed by the regular supply of blood. But unlike vampires, they don't drink the blood but it gets into their body through transfusion.
2. Congenital Hypertrichosis: This is a very rare and peculiar syndrome, it is also called the "Human Werewolf Syndrome". It causes excess hair to grow on the body and those who suffer from it also experience Gingival Hyperplasia (tooth defects) which gives them the appearance of werewolves.
Only about 50 people in the world are known to have suffered from this syndrome.
3. Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis: It is also called the "Tree Bark Skin Disorder" and is a very rare disorder characterised by eruptions of wart-like lessions that may pop-up anywhere in the body.
This is a subtype of the Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) and there is no known cure yet.
4. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome: This particular syndrome makes children to look very old and elderly before they are even two years old. And this happens without any change in intellectual development or motor skill development.
They simply become elderly infants. Symptoms are as follows:
Prominent eyes, thin nose with beaked tip, protruding eyes, small chin and thin lips.
They also suffer from hair loss, aging skin, joint abnormalities e.g arthritis and enlarged skull.
Children who suffer from this syndrome usually don't live beyond their teenage years.
It is so distressful, embarassing and unnatural that people who suffer from it often turn to suicide for relief.
Scientists are still confused as to what might be the real cause of this embarassing condition.
It occurs when bones are formed in muscles, tendons, ligaments and other connecting tissues and these bones then develop across joints forming a second skeleton which also severely restricts even the simplest bodily movements. The person looks like a living statue.
It has no known effective treatment and injuries or surgeries sometimes makes it worse.
The left hand could suddenly slap a person or start unbuttoning the shirts or pants in public. The person has full sensation in the rogue hand or leg but is not in control of it's movement.
It is believed to be as a result of a mutation in the gene that controls pain-sensing neurons.
It occurs with the inflamation of the aesophagus and certain white blood cells called "eosinophils"(not normally found in the oesophagus) appears.
In some cases the objects might appear both far away and extremely close at the same time. A dog may appear the size of a mouse, a house may appear the size of a small car.
Interestingly the eyes are not in any way impaired, the problem comes from the brain and how it interpretes information that comes from the eyes.
They suffer from oversensitivity to sunlight.
Garlic gives them severe abdominal pains.
Their gums recede giving them the appearance of fangs.
Porphyria occurs when there is a build-up of chemicals called porphyrins in the body as a result of disruption in the production of heme, which is an iron-rich component of the haemoglobin.
Porphyria cannot really be cured but can be managed by the regular supply of blood. But unlike vampires, they don't drink the blood but it gets into their body through transfusion.
2. Congenital Hypertrichosis: This is a very rare and peculiar syndrome, it is also called the "Human Werewolf Syndrome". It causes excess hair to grow on the body and those who suffer from it also experience Gingival Hyperplasia (tooth defects) which gives them the appearance of werewolves.
Only about 50 people in the world are known to have suffered from this syndrome.
3. Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis: It is also called the "Tree Bark Skin Disorder" and is a very rare disorder characterised by eruptions of wart-like lessions that may pop-up anywhere in the body.
This is a subtype of the Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) and there is no known cure yet.
4. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome: This particular syndrome makes children to look very old and elderly before they are even two years old. And this happens without any change in intellectual development or motor skill development.
They simply become elderly infants. Symptoms are as follows:
Prominent eyes, thin nose with beaked tip, protruding eyes, small chin and thin lips.
They also suffer from hair loss, aging skin, joint abnormalities e.g arthritis and enlarged skull.
Children who suffer from this syndrome usually don't live beyond their teenage years.
5. Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome: This is a very rare neurological (and maybe hormonal) condition. They suffer from persistent SEXUALe and genital arousal and they find themselves on the verge of squirting almost 24 hours everyday.
It is so distressful, embarassing and unnatural that people who suffer from it often turn to suicide for relief.
Scientists are still confused as to what might be the real cause of this embarassing condition.
6. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressive (FOP): It is also known as the "Living Statue Syndrome". It is one of the most painful and disabling conditions you can find.
It occurs when bones are formed in muscles, tendons, ligaments and other connecting tissues and these bones then develop across joints forming a second skeleton which also severely restricts even the simplest bodily movements. The person looks like a living statue.
It has no known effective treatment and injuries or surgeries sometimes makes it worse.
7. Alien Hand Syndrome: This is a rare condition in which one of the limbs (arms or legs) acts independently without the concious control of that person.
The left hand could suddenly slap a person or start unbuttoning the shirts or pants in public. The person has full sensation in the rogue hand or leg but is not in control of it's movement.
8. Congenital Insensitivity to Pain: This rare condition makes people to become totally insensitive to physical pain and they cannot feel anything when injured or when their tongues are touched by very hot food.
It is believed to be as a result of a mutation in the gene that controls pain-sensing neurons.
9. Eosinophilic Esophagitis is a very rare and very serious allergic/immune condition which causes an allergy to foods, not just particular kinds of foods but all foods. In some extreme cases even the scent of food is enough to cause hospitalisation.
It occurs with the inflamation of the aesophagus and certain white blood cells called "eosinophils"(not normally found in the oesophagus) appears.
10. Micropsia: It is also called "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" and it affects the human visual perception such that objects are perceived as substantially smaller than they really are.
In some cases the objects might appear both far away and extremely close at the same time. A dog may appear the size of a mouse, a house may appear the size of a small car.
Interestingly the eyes are not in any way impaired, the problem comes from the brain and how it interpretes information that comes from the eyes.
Minister Of Education Has Not resigned
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/04/m-still-supervising-minister-education-wike/
Monday 31 March 2014
Governors Partly Responsible For Boko Haram Menace
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday took a swipe at governors for accusing the Federal Government of bad leadership, asking them to stop pushing blames when they have failed on their part to provide primary and secondary education for their citizens.
Speaking in Bauchi during the North-east Zonal Rally of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jonathan also lampooned some northern governors over insurgency in their states which he blamed on lack of education for the children and employment consequent upon which they are ready tools for terrorists.
Jonathan, who charged the governors to take charge and stop blaming their inept leadership on the Federal Government, however asked if the federal government, constitutionally responsible for the provision of tertiary education, should be in charge of primary and secondary education at the state level.
He said, “ Sometimes governors will come and say we have some issues because of bad leadership. I was governor, deputy governor before I became a governor. I spent eight years at the state level, I handled security challenges. That was the state where the first commercial kidnapping took place because of excess militancy.
More than 7 % of the state is swamp. I knew how we handled things. A governor will come and say bad leadership, bad leadership from whom? If we have security challenges, whether you call them Boko Haram or whatever, these are people who couldn't go to primary school, who couldn't go to secondary school and they have no hope and miscreants or criminals now recruit them and using them; if you see what they wear, they wear rags and not normal clothes; all what they put on their bodies is not worth N10, but they carry rifles and bullets that are worth more that N250,000. Somebody gives them food to eat so that they can kill.
”You ask how did we build this army of unemployed or unemployable youth? The Federal Government does not control primary education; it does not control secondary education, and a governor has been on seat for almost eight years and we have people in that state that can’t go to primary school, that can’t go to secondary school. You say bad leadership, who is the bad leader? Is it the Federal Government? I made sure that every state has a university. That is the responsibility of the Federal Government and I have done it.
Governors must make sure that our children go to primary school, governors must make sure that our children go to secondary school. Somebody hide under the cover of politics and cannot do it in eight years or seven years plus. We still have do many children in your state that cannot go to primary school, not going to secondary school and you open your mouth to say bad leadership; is it the Federal Government or Mr. President that should come and take your children to primary schools? Federal Government by the constitution faces tertiary education. “
Earlier in his remarks, PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, who reiterated that aspirants must go to their wards, local governments and states to convince the people to vote for them, disclosed that all congresses in the 36 states and Abuja would be televised life for people to watch.
In his remarks, Vice President Namadi Sambo disclosed that all closed schools in the zone would be re-opened soon.
Also in his remarks, Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, Chief Tony Anenih, who noted that the Jonathan-led administration has done much for the North-east, said that one good turn must deserve another when the time comes.[
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/jonathan-explodes-blame-northern-govs-boko-haram/
Speaking in Bauchi during the North-east Zonal Rally of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jonathan also lampooned some northern governors over insurgency in their states which he blamed on lack of education for the children and employment consequent upon which they are ready tools for terrorists.
Jonathan, who charged the governors to take charge and stop blaming their inept leadership on the Federal Government, however asked if the federal government, constitutionally responsible for the provision of tertiary education, should be in charge of primary and secondary education at the state level.
He said, “ Sometimes governors will come and say we have some issues because of bad leadership. I was governor, deputy governor before I became a governor. I spent eight years at the state level, I handled security challenges. That was the state where the first commercial kidnapping took place because of excess militancy.
More than 7 % of the state is swamp. I knew how we handled things. A governor will come and say bad leadership, bad leadership from whom? If we have security challenges, whether you call them Boko Haram or whatever, these are people who couldn't go to primary school, who couldn't go to secondary school and they have no hope and miscreants or criminals now recruit them and using them; if you see what they wear, they wear rags and not normal clothes; all what they put on their bodies is not worth N10, but they carry rifles and bullets that are worth more that N250,000. Somebody gives them food to eat so that they can kill.
”You ask how did we build this army of unemployed or unemployable youth? The Federal Government does not control primary education; it does not control secondary education, and a governor has been on seat for almost eight years and we have people in that state that can’t go to primary school, that can’t go to secondary school. You say bad leadership, who is the bad leader? Is it the Federal Government? I made sure that every state has a university. That is the responsibility of the Federal Government and I have done it.
Governors must make sure that our children go to primary school, governors must make sure that our children go to secondary school. Somebody hide under the cover of politics and cannot do it in eight years or seven years plus. We still have do many children in your state that cannot go to primary school, not going to secondary school and you open your mouth to say bad leadership; is it the Federal Government or Mr. President that should come and take your children to primary schools? Federal Government by the constitution faces tertiary education. “
Earlier in his remarks, PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, who reiterated that aspirants must go to their wards, local governments and states to convince the people to vote for them, disclosed that all congresses in the 36 states and Abuja would be televised life for people to watch.
In his remarks, Vice President Namadi Sambo disclosed that all closed schools in the zone would be re-opened soon.
Also in his remarks, Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, Chief Tony Anenih, who noted that the Jonathan-led administration has done much for the North-east, said that one good turn must deserve another when the time comes.[
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/jonathan-explodes-blame-northern-govs-boko-haram/
Minister Of Education, Nyesom Wike Resigns
Reports indicates that the minister of state and supervising minister of education, Nyesom Wike has submitted his letter of resignation to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Sources reveal to The Paradigm that the minister’s resignation is to enable him pursue his ambition of becoming the next governor of Rivers State after the expiration of the tenure of the incumbent, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi.
The minister was said to have briefed the President of his intention to contest for the Rivers governorship election in 2015, to which he got the approval of the President to challenge the growing profile of the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi.
The resignation which is expected to take effect from April 1, 2014 has gotten the approval of the president.
But another source within the Villa, confirmed that Wike’s resignation will be announced next week Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
Wike has been in running battle with Governor Amaechi, notorious for using the former Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, who is a very close ally of the President’s wife, Mrs Patience Jonathan, to attack the interest of the governor.
He was behind the group of five members of the House of Assembly who tried to impeach the Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, with another ally, Evans Bipi claiming to be the new speaker.
http://www.theparadigmng.com/?
Sources reveal to The Paradigm that the minister’s resignation is to enable him pursue his ambition of becoming the next governor of Rivers State after the expiration of the tenure of the incumbent, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi.
The minister was said to have briefed the President of his intention to contest for the Rivers governorship election in 2015, to which he got the approval of the President to challenge the growing profile of the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi.
The resignation which is expected to take effect from April 1, 2014 has gotten the approval of the president.
But another source within the Villa, confirmed that Wike’s resignation will be announced next week Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
Wike has been in running battle with Governor Amaechi, notorious for using the former Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, who is a very close ally of the President’s wife, Mrs Patience Jonathan, to attack the interest of the governor.
He was behind the group of five members of the House of Assembly who tried to impeach the Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, with another ally, Evans Bipi claiming to be the new speaker.
http://www.theparadigmng.com/?
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