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Kawasaki Disease

Postings by Deborah Copaken Kogan of her 4 year old son, while being checked for strep throat, caused a flurry of concerned comments, then as his condition got worse the author posted more pictures, any help would be good, as the still mystery illness gripped her son threateningly.

Luckily her postings on Facebook brought help, as a friend called saying "I hope you'll excuse me for butting in, but you have to get to the hospital. Now! My son Max had had the exact same symptoms, and was hospitalized for Kawasaki disease, a rare and sometimes fatal auto-immune disorder that attacks the coronary arteries surrounding the heart, the longer you wait, the worse the damage."

Another auto immune disease where the body perceives an attack and inevitably damages it's self.
Kawasaki disease can be fatal, if unchecked it causes inflammation in the arteries though out the body, in particularly the danger lies in the effect it has the arteries around the heart. It starts with a high fever, then continues into several other stages that can include large pealing chunks of skin, joint pain, diarrhea, bloodshot eyes, the list goes on.

The moral of the story being, if you or your loved ones, have strange symptoms that mystify doctors, post it on your social network. May be your friends have seen it before and they can save you a lot of time and heartache, with suggestions as to what it could be. Then you can take that information to the doctors.

Last year, the American Medical Association adopted social media policy guidelines, which encourage doctors to do things like take advantage of privacy settings and maintain the "appropriate" boundaries of the patient-physician relationship on the web.
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Rare Spoon-Billed Birds

Really Rare Spoon-Billed Sandpiper

There are thought to be less than 120 breeding pairs of the Spoon-Billed Sandpiper left in existence, this cute little sandpiper is unique with it's spoon shaped bill, these birds nest in Russia, some of the eggs have been rescued they where placed in the Moscow zoo to be quarantined, in an effort to increase the population.

After quarantine the tiny eggs are shipped to a specially built unit at the headquarters of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, UK. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), BirdLife International, is working closely with WWT and Birds Russia, to save a bird that would surly become extinct without intervention.

The Spoon-Billed Sandpiper migrates every year from Russia's Bay of Bay to Bengal in Bangladesh every year, preferring shore lines as their habitat. On the journey to Bangladesh the birds pass though various places including Japan, North Korea, the Republic of Korea, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh and India.

Hunting in their wintering habitat in Myanmar and Bangladesh, together with the degradation and reclaiming of inter-tidal mudflats, in many countries in Asia are thought to be the cause of the populations decline.

Happily the mission is a success so far, as the birds hatched on the way to their new home in Gloucestershire.

Rare Spoon-Bills Spotted In Scotland

The Scottish Wildlife Trust's Montrose basin reserve is where rare spoonbills have been spotted, this is cause for some excitement as these birds have not been seen in a group at the reserve before. Ranger Anna Cheshier for the reserve, is glad bird watchers in the area are able to see the unusual visitor.

"The spoonbill is unmistakable. It really stands out at Montrose Basin and we have been watching them carefully since the first sighting on the 28 June," she said.

"I have never seen more than one spoonbill at Montrose Basin so it is great news to see a group."

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New iPhone 4 Is Released

Do you have an iPhone? Perhaps you like to keep up with the latest gadgets, so there is a new iPhone 4G, what's different about this one? Why would someone with a perfectly good iPhone 3 what to get an iPhone 4? Well let's see, it has s supper fabulous screen, so great that the pixel density is the best you can get, with over 4 times the pixel of the last iPhone, this makes the pictures so stunning they can be enlarged without graininess.

The video chat feature is the easiest yet with one push of a button, your friends can see your smiling face, no worries about not having got dressed, brushed your hair or lack of makeup, who cares your video chatting! Did you know that video chat phones where actually around in the 70's? Yeah but no one wanted to use them, so they fell into obscurity.

Multitasking is faster better cheaper, well it drains the batteries less and does not slow down other functions, when using a third party apps, it is also easier to switch between apps.

Not long ago iPhones did not even have a video recorder now they are in competition with the best of them, with low-light settings that include a backside illumination sensor and built in LED light. Editing your movie just got simpler with the built in new iMovie app, including Apple designed themes, transitions and titles. The Camera is improved to with 5 mega pixels and built in flash.

There are also rumors that by September will see the launch of two new iPhones, the iPhone 5 that is going to be a high end option, making the iPhone 4 seem cheap by comparison, what features would it have to make it so special I wonder? iPhone 6 that is rumored to appear in September will have the new wireless inductive charging capabilities, this hoverboard will be capable of recharging a number of items at the same time and will be an extra purchase of course.
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Two Deadly Train Crashs In India

Two trains derailed in India yesterday, a passenger train in fatehpur, dozens of people where in the train. The carriages jumped the track and landed on top of each other, some of them being squashed flat. the tally so far is 69 dead and over 200 injured. Sniffer dogs where lead by rescue teams, over the wreckage and mangled pieces of train to find survivors and non-survivors.

A second crash in in northeastern state of Assam, was suspected to have been caused by a bomb on the tracks. Police speculate the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a tribal separatist group, had planted a bomb that caused the derailment of four carriages, some of which rolled into a water-logged ditch. About a hundred people where injured and 20 near death, extra security has been deployed in the vulnerable location across Assam.

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Duchess + Floaty Dress + Windy Day = Whoops

Poor Catherine, how was she to know it would windy in Calgary?

while on their tour of Canada, the Duchess of Cambridge had chosen a beautiful yellow dress by Jenny Packham. The material has a lovely floaty quality to it, more suited to a light breeze, which is not what was happening in Calgary on July 7th. Perhaps now she will have to get an up to the minute forecast, to help with wardrobe changes, do personal stylists do that?

Now this is going to be one of the more remembered Photographs of the Royals.

The media has been handled well, they have been allowed their privacy, but
Oh-la-la Kate would have been better with one of your tighter numbers.