Hantavirus outbreak

A West Virginian is the third person to die so far from a rodent-borne illness linked to some tent cabins at Yosemite.  Construction crews began working on nearby tent cabins. As of August 30, 2012, The National Park Service (NPS) announced that there were 6 confirmed cases of Hantavirus. In 1993, an outbreak of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome occurred in the Four Corners region in the southwestern United States. U.S. CDC says 10,000 at risk of hantavirus in Yosemite outbreak. Yosemite hantavirus outbreak: virus kills quickly and cannot be treated. As six cases of the rare hantavirus pulmonary syndrome are confirmed at Yosemite National Park. The hantavirus virus is carried in rodent faeces, urine and saliva. A hantavirus outbreak in California's Yosemite National Park that is raising concerns among public health officials. Hantavirus cases are being investigated in Yosemite National Park. The virus is rare in the U.S. The deadly Hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite is affecting visits to the national park, and now has international implications. Health officials described the outbreak of hantavirus at Yosemite National Park as rare as the park took steps to warn the public. Some tourists hoping to visit Yosemite National Park are changing their plans due to the recent outbreak of hantavirus. Spread by rodents and sometimes misdiagnosed as the common flu, hantavirus drowns its victims in their own fluids. Yosemite National Park has closed 91 tent cabins due to an outbreak of Hantavirus. Two people have died and a total of six people have been infected with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome after visiting Yosemite National Park. Hantavirus has an incubation time of two to four weeks in humans before symptoms of infection occur. There is no known antiviral treatment, but natural recovery from the virus is possible. The early symptoms of hantavirus disease are similar to the flu. Symptoms begin one to six weeks after inhaling the virus. Hantavirus causes flu-like symptoms, starting with fever, body aches and fatigue. Hantavirus symptoms do not include runny nose, sneezing and other upper respiratory tract problems typically seen with colds and allergies. 

LIU FEI SNAKE ENTERS THE NOSE

Liu Fei amazing man he let his snakes from entering the nose and mouth. Entertainer forces poisonous snakes through his nose and out of his mouth. Fei, from east China's Jiangxi Province.  amazingly enjoys putting 3ft long cauliflower snakes up his nose and letting them out of his mouth. The most serious being when he swallowed one accidentally. Entertainer Liu Fei is very popular in his little place Mianiang, China.

BIRD BERMUDA TRIANGLE | BRITAIN

Pigeon racers say scores of their birds are mysteriously vanishing. Hundreds of racing pigeons have gone missing in an area of Northern England, prompting some to call it a bird Bermuda Triangle. Pigeon racers in England are starting to believe in something called the "Bird Bermuda Triangle. The area in question is a thin triangle connecting the towns of Thirsk, Wetherby with Corsett in the north. This is not the first time it has happened in that area. unusually high levels of solar activity distorting magnetic fields signals that are making the birds go batty. Fanciers say they are experiencing "disastrous" and unprecedented losses in an area. only 13 of the 232 birds released in the region made it home. Racing pigeons can be identified by a tag on their leg and racing clubs often organise couriers to pick up lost birds.  

Melody Cooke | Happie | Skateboarding Goat

Skateboarding Goat. A Nigerian dwarf cross goat named "Happie" Guinness World Record for ... skateboarding.Happie enjoyed it so much. The record-setting run was made at an office building back in March with a long runway of interior sidewalks. The record became official this past week when a certificate from Guinness arrived. Happie, a goat, now holds the record, with Guinness World Records, for skateboarding the farthest distance (118 feet). Happie learned how to get on a skateboard, the rest was easy. Melody Cooke and her goat Happie set the record for the ‘longest distance skateboarding.

Giant Squid in Australia

Recently deceased sea creature eaten by predator off the coast of Australia. The largest invertebrate, Giant Squid lives only in water. A GIANT squid, one of the most mysterious and least understood of marine creatures, has been found floating off the south coast. A twelve foot giant squid has been spotted off the coast at Jervis Bay on the NSW South Coast. Although it was found dead, it's proof that this incredible creature .They have large eyes as big as the basketball, which helps them search their food in deep oceans. Watch a blue shark attempt to devour three-metre long remains of a fresh giant squid floating off Jervis bay on the NSW south coast.

Baby koalas eat their mothers Poop

The undeveloped digestive systems of baby koalas are not able to process the vegetation that koalas normally eat. They need a bacteria present in their mother's feces in order to properly digest it. The scientific word for eating poop is "Coprophagia". 

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Most expensive Dog Big Splash

Hong Dong is an 81-kilogram puppy presumably with the same bad breath, flea and flatulence problems as every other dog. So what makes this bundle of fluffy, red fur worth $1.5 million? Hong Dong, whose name means Big Splash, was recently purchased by a multimillionaire coal baron from the north of China."You're not allowed to see the puppies until you tell them how much you've got to spend," Tibetan mastiffs are believed to be one of the world's oldest breeds. They were originally used as guard dogs for monasteries and Genghis Khan is said to have had an army of them. They can live for 10 to 14 years.Tibetan mastiff named Red Lion was sold last year for £915,000 ($1.48 million).

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rooster lived for 18 months without a head

This story began in 1945, in Fruita Colorado, when farmer Lloyd Olsen acting upon instructions from his wife, selected a plump bird to eat for supper. It was off to the chopping block for poor old Mike. Lloyd skillfully chopped the poor bird's head off, and watched as Mike fluttered about as most freshly beheaded poultry tend to do.

Mike was quite the fighter and continued to flutter about for a long time. He eventually decided to calm down and put this unpleasant episode behind him and just continue on living as a decapitated animal. Lloyd found him the next morning sleeping beside his head. Well, how could anyone kill an animal that had accepted his fate with such equinamity?

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Mike was taken to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and examined by scientists. Apparently most of Mike's brain stem had been left attached to the body, and thus he was left with his motor skills. A fortuitous blood clot had formed at exactly the right time to prevent the bird from bleeding to death. From then on, Lloyd devoted a lot of his time to feeding Mike grain and water through an eye dropper and went on tour with the bird all around America.  He became quite the side-show attraction, earning quite a bit of money for the Olsens. This rooster lived for 18 months without a head, and only passed on due to an unfortunate incident revolving around a misplaced eye dropper in a motel in Arizona.

Apparently Mike lived a pretty happy life, strutting around and scrabbling in the dirt as normal roosters do. He didn't really seem to miss his head all that much at all. A recent telephone conversation that I had with a local mortgage broker brought the story of Mike the headless chicken to the forefront of my mind. This broker also seems to be able to lead a perfectly normal and happy life and does quite well without the aid of a functioning brain. I think science is able to explain this phenomenon.

Largest Jellyfish Lions Mane

The Lions Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago) and are among some of the oldest surviving species in the world.
The largest can come in at about 6 meters and has tentacles over 50 meters long. Pretty amazing when you think these things have been swimming around for so long.
They have hundreds of poisonous tentacles that it used to catch passing by fish. it then slowly drags in it’s prey and eats it.
That is terrifying.

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Mr Li Zongwen makes food for stray pooches

Li Zongwen makes food for the stray dogs at his house.
Mr Li, 59, has become a dog's best friend after adopting a number of stray and abandoned pooches.
Walkies must be a nightmare and dealing with the poop almost unimaginable because Li takes care of over 140 of the animals in his home in China.
Rescued from the streets on the outskirts of the city of Wuhan, they are given a roof over their heads and a meal to eat.
The rescued animals like to sit and watch as the former chef rustles up their grub in a big cauldron using a garden spade. 

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Rehovot Agronomy Genetically Modified Chicken

Scientists at the genetics faculty at the Rehovot Agronomy Institute near Tel Aviv, Israel have created a mostly featherless chicken by cross breeding a broiler (which are the big, meaty ones) with a species that has a featherless neck. The idea behind the development of this ugly thing is that it will create a more ‘convenient’ and energy efficient chicken which can live in warm countries where feathered chickens don’t do well and cooling systems are too expensive to be commonly affordable.

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Damien Hirst Works

Damien Hirst was born on the 7th of June 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds.  He was refused admission to Leeds College of Art and Design when he first applied, but tried again and was admitted. He worked for two years on London building sites, then studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (1986–89), although again he was refused a place the first time he applied.  Whilst a student, Hirst had a placement at a mortuary, an experience that influenced his later themes and materials.

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Immortal animal

Have you ever wondered what would happen if our life cycles were reversed, that is if we were born old and died young? Well, there’s one animal that comes close and has achieved immortality in the process, just to top it off. Meet the Turritopsis nutricula, a small saltwater animal or hydrozoan related to jellyfish and corals.

Like most jellyfish, Turritopsis nutricula undergoes two distinct stages in its life cycle: The polypoid or immature stage, when it’s just a small stalk with feeding tentacles; and the medusa or mature stage when the only 1mm-long polyps asexually produce jellyfish.

A jellyfish’s lifespan usually ranges from somewhere between a few hours for the smallest species to several months and rarely to a few years for the bigger species. How does the only 4-5 mm longTurritopsis nutricula (let’s call it T’nut) manage to beat the system?

Well, T’nut is able to transform between medusa and polyp stage, thereby reverting back from mature to immature stage and escaping death. The cell process is called transdifferentiation, when non-stem cells either transform into a different type of cell or when an already differentiated or specialised stem cell creates cells outside this specialised path.

 T’nut requires tissue from both the jellyfish bell surface and the circulatory canal system for its transdifferentiation. This switching of cell roles is not unusual and can be seen in many animals and humans, but usually only when parts of an organ regenerate. In T’nut’s case, reverting back to an immature state is part of its regular life cycle.

In its medusa form, Turritopsis nutricula is bell-shaped and about 4-5 mm in diameter. Young specimens will be only 1 mm in diameter and have eight tentacles to start out with but can have between 80 and 90 as adults.

Giant Spider Kills Bird

This is a series of photos to make even the most ardent of arachnophiles or the most bullish of bird bashers squirm in their seats, wincing at the image of that poor little tweety pie getting eaten by that beastly looking spider. The spider stealing the limelight – as well as its avian victim's vital fluids – is the none too unpleasantly named golden silk orb weaver, while its unfortunate meal was a type of finch.