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The U.S. Interior Department launched a national plan Tuesday to combat a mysterious fungus disease that has killed more than a million bats in the eastern and southern United States and is spreading west. The fungus disease, called white-nose syndrome, is caused by a fungus. The fungus disease has spread to 16 states, from New Hampshire to Tennessee, and three Canadian provinces.
White-nose syndrome- the fungus disease- first identified in upstate New York in 2006, has been found along the Eastern seaboard from New Hampshire to North Carolina, as well as in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. The fungus has been found in Oklahoma and Missouri, although no bats are known to have died from this fungus disease in those states.
The fungus disease also has been found in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec. The fungus, but not yet the disease, has been found in Nova Scotia.

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It is said that one must keep friends close but foes even closer & hence in this tick season, it is very important for you to know all you can about the deadly Lyme disease. For starters, the scientific name of Lyme disease is Borrelia Burgdorferi Infection. As the scientific name suggests, Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria called Borrelia Burgdorferi.

Ticks, who contract this bacterium from biting deer or mice, are its main carriers. Although tick bites are most common ways of contracting this disease, there are instances of it being passed on during birth or through breast-feeding.
Lyme disease starts with bullseye-like rash around the bitten area, has symptoms like heart palpitations, shooting pains, abdominal pain, insomnia, arthritis, exhaustion, memory loss and vision problems.
Lyme disease can become a chronic disease unless diagnosed early. According to reports, Lyme disease is the fastest growing infectious disease in North America.

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It is a common perception that if nothing hurts or at least doesn't hurt very often then a person is in good health. Yet this is not always the case. How we define health and disease matters. When you look up "health" in a dictionary, it is defined as "the state of optimal physical, chemical and emotional well-being, not merely the absence of disease".

There are many cases of people going to their doctors and being shocked to discover that they have a condition that they were totally unaware of. They probably didn't realize they had it because they weren't suffering. Heart disease is a good example, because someone can have it for years and not even know until they have a heart attack. There may be subtle signs that they don't pick up on or ignore, such as with osteoporosis. A person probably doesn't realize they are are losing bone mass over the years as they never really feel pain anywhere or have any serious fractures so they assumed they were fine.

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