Category: Health

No two words stoke fear faster than “bed bugs.” They’re easy to spread, hard to see and nearly impossible, it seems, to eradicate.

Thankfully, a new study published in the Journal of Medical Entomologysussed out what could be a useful weapon against them: color.

The scientists made tiny tents out of folded cardstock in eight different colors and placed them in Petri dishes. They then plopped a bed bug in the middle, who had 10 minutes to decide which tent to hide in.

Overall, bed bugs strongly tended to choose red tents over the other colors, almost 29% of the time. Black was a close runner-up, drawing in bed bugs 23% of the time. Bed bugs pretty much avoided green and yellow tents.

That might be because colors like green and yellow signal the outdoors or brightly lit areas, places where bed bugs aren’t typically found. And as for their love of red? “We originally thought the bed bugs might prefer red because blood is red and that’s what they feed on,” said study co-author Corraine McNeill, assistant professor of biology at Union College in Nebraska, in a statement. “However, after doing the study, the main reason we think they preferred red is because bed bugs themselves appear red, so they go to these harborages because they want to be with other bed bugs, as they are known to exist in aggregations.”

Their color preferences depended on whether they were hungry, fed, old or young. Still, red and black were overwhelmingly the harbors of choice.

So should you burn your red sheets? If only it were that simple. On its own, the color of your linens probably isn’t going to inoculate you against an infestation, the scientists point out (though they’re not ruling out that possibility yet). The scientists do think, however, that this insight into a bed bug’s favorite color could one day enhance the efficacy of bed bug traps.
 ~Time.com

After putting life to the death primary health care Centres in the state, the
Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (CRSPHCDA), has launched her first ever website as well as an interactive facebook page.

The Director General of the Agency, Dr. Betta Edu told newsmen that the website will provide a window of communication between the CRSPHCDA, the other MDAs, those the agency is meant to serve in the state as well as the rest of the world.

She said she was delighted that the agency has been able to create an enabling platform for Cross Riverians to get first hand information on health, updates on all health activities in the state, share ideas, criticise and advice the agency on policies aimed at revitalizing the Primary Healthcare system in the state.

She urged the General Public to always view the site and update themselves with the latest information, events and programs of the agency.

Visit website: www.crsphcda.org

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/crsphcda

After putting life to the death primary health care Centres in the state, the
Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (CRSPHCDA), has launched her first ever website as well as an interactive facebook page.

The Director General of the Agency, Dr. Betta Edu told newsmen that the website will provide a window of communication between the CRSPHCDA, the other MDAs, those the agency is meant to serve in the state as well as the rest of the world.

She said she was delighted that the agency has been able to create an enabling platform for Cross Riverians to get first hand information on health, updates on all health activities in the state, share ideas, criticise and advice the agency on policies aimed at revitalizing the Primary Healthcare system in the state.

She urged the General Public to always view the site and update themselves with the latest information, events and programs of the agency.

Visit website: www.crsphcda.org

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/crsphcda

This simple tricks will teach you how to consume any garri without contracting the deadly Lassa fever.

Sometimes you wonder why the Lassa fever thing has halt a lot of Nigerians from consuming the local made cassava flakes known as garri. Don’t worry, this post will put you with simple and safety measures.

Talking about sipping garri, most people think it’s for the poor, but it’s a lie for every Nigerian drink garri, whether rich or poor, big or small and irrespective of your tribe. Most times we consume it for hunger, appetite and the likes.

Ever since the outbreak of Lassa fever or virus across the country, many health practitioners has warn the danger of drinking garri. It’s only advised to use hot water alone which is not preferable for drinking but instead for making eba.

For us to safeguard our lives and to meet the requirements which the Federal Ministry of Health had recommended, we need to avoid anything that get in contact with rats (rodents) in which garri is one of them.


How to drink/sip garri to remain safe:


Get your garri, irrespective of where it’s obtained, whether market or by oneself. Endeavor to re-fry the garri, it won’t take long, may be 30seconds, 1minute or so. You can use any pot and fire to fry, then alow to cold and your garri is ready for drinking with cold water. Remember to keep personal hygiene.

Watch short video clip below….

                                                             DOWNLOAD VIDEO

This simple tricks will teach you how to consume any garri without contracting the deadly Lassa fever.

Sometimes you wonder why the Lassa fever thing has halt a lot of Nigerians from consuming the local made cassava flakes known as garri. Don’t worry, this post will put you with simple and safety measures.

Talking about sipping garri, most people think it’s for the poor, but it’s a lie for every Nigerian drink garri, whether rich or poor, big or small and irrespective of your tribe. Most times we consume it for hunger, appetite and the likes.

Ever since the outbreak of Lassa fever or virus across the country, many health practitioners has warn the danger of drinking garri. It’s only advised to use hot water alone which is not preferable for drinking but instead for making eba.

For us to safeguard our lives and to meet the requirements which the Federal Ministry of Health had recommended, we need to avoid anything that get in contact with rats (rodents) in which garri is one of them.


How to drink/sip garri to remain safe:


Get your garri, irrespective of where it’s obtained, whether market or by oneself. Endeavor to re-fry the garri, it won’t take long, may be 30seconds, 1minute or so. You can use any pot and fire to fry, then alow to cold and your garri is ready for drinking with cold water. Remember to keep personal hygiene.

Watch short video clip below….

                                                             DOWNLOAD VIDEO

Displacement due to the Boko Haram insurgency has now reached almost three million in Nigeria and other neighbouring countries.

This is according to figures released by the International Office of Migration (IOM) on Friday, indicating the crisis was worsening in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.

The figures have until now been put at 2 million.

According to the Nigerian government-led Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), 2,24 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) are now living in northeast Nigeria across 13 states. They are in camps and host communities.

In Niger, displacement figures compiled by the government and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) show a total of 319 000 displaced people, 48 percent of them internally displaced 31 percent of them refugees from neighbouring countries and 21 percent of them returnees.

Cameroon is currently hosting 270 000 displaced people, according to IOM and UNHCR.

Some 63 percent are internally displaced, 24 percent are refugees and 13 percent are returnees.

IOM is among a number of organisations providing assistance to displaced victims of the Boo Haram crisis.

IOM’s work to provide assistance to 460 000 people in the region through the support of its partners, including the European Union and the governments of Italy, France and Japan.

“But we are currently appealing for US$25 million for urgent humanitarian assistance in the areas of shelter, camp coordination and camp management, and psychosocial support,” said IOM Regional Director for West and Central Africa Richard Danziger.

– CAJ News

Displacement due to the Boko Haram insurgency has now reached almost three million in Nigeria and other neighbouring countries.

This is according to figures released by the International Office of Migration (IOM) on Friday, indicating the crisis was worsening in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria.

The figures have until now been put at 2 million.

According to the Nigerian government-led Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), 2,24 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) are now living in northeast Nigeria across 13 states. They are in camps and host communities.

In Niger, displacement figures compiled by the government and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) show a total of 319 000 displaced people, 48 percent of them internally displaced 31 percent of them refugees from neighbouring countries and 21 percent of them returnees.

Cameroon is currently hosting 270 000 displaced people, according to IOM and UNHCR.

Some 63 percent are internally displaced, 24 percent are refugees and 13 percent are returnees.

IOM is among a number of organisations providing assistance to displaced victims of the Boo Haram crisis.

IOM’s work to provide assistance to 460 000 people in the region through the support of its partners, including the European Union and the governments of Italy, France and Japan.

“But we are currently appealing for US$25 million for urgent humanitarian assistance in the areas of shelter, camp coordination and camp management, and psychosocial support,” said IOM Regional Director for West and Central Africa Richard Danziger.

– CAJ News

Whether you’re staying in a hotel or having a sleepover, you never sleep quite as well on a bed that’s not your own.

That’s an observable fact. When scientists have people sleep in a lab for an experiment, they often toss out the first night of data because people sleep so poorly. But before now, they haven’t known why.

In a small new study published inCurrent Biology, researchers from Brown University found out what goes on in the brain when a person sleeps in an unfamiliar place. They measured brain activity during the deep sleep of 35 young, healthy people

The researchers found evidence that something unique indeed goes on in the brain during the first night: one hemisphere of the brain, the left, shows wakefulness while the other shows sleep. This alertness during sleep in half of the brain has been observed in other animals—including whales, dolphins and birds—and is thought to act as a kind of night watch. “The environment is so new to us, we might need a surveillance system so we can monitor the surroundings and we can detect anything unusual,” says Masako Tamaki, one of the authors of the study and research associate at the Laboratory for Cognitive and Perceptual Learning at Brown University. We’re most vulnerable when we’re asleep, in other words, and by staying partially awake, our brains might be trying to protect us.

The researchers also found that when they outfitted the people in the study with earphones, the left side showed a larger brain response to high-pitched sounds than the right—suggesting more vigilance in that hemisphere.

The study raises a lot of unanswered questions; researchers don’t yet know why they saw this effect in the left hemisphere and not the right. But interestingly, both of these asymmetries only occurred on the first night—something to keep in mind the next time you can’t fall asleep in a strange place.
~Time.com