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Wifi Side Effects on Health: Low Sperm Count and Short Attention Span?

Wifi Side Effects on Health: Low Sperm Count and Short Attention Span? Three studies conducted over the past five years suggest that long-term use of Wi-Fi devices may pose many risks to human health — making men infertile and decreasing young people’s ability to concentrate when finishing mental tasks.

It may also pose a risk to the growing brains of school-age children exposed to higher Wi-Fi waves in classrooms.

The most recent study says that men who surf the internet using Wi-Fi on a computer placed on their laps may have a decreased chance of experiencing fatherhood.

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Universal Flu Vaccine Available Soon?

There’s no underestimating the destructive power of a flu pandemic. So far, there have been only five in human history, but the worst one, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was so deadly. Spreading across the world, even to the Arctic and remote Pacific Islands, it infected almost a third of all the people at that time and killed between 50 million and 100 million people — at least three percent of the world’s population then.

Which is why scientists since then have been hard at work investigating molecular virology, genomics pathogenesis, epidemiology, host immune responses and other aspects of influenza research.

Thankfully, widespread fears in the mid-2000s about the world being on the brink of a global bird flu pandemic that could kill millions because of the virulence of the H5N1 bird flu virus strain never quite panned out. But health authorities and governments in most rich nations have sunk billions of dollars into research aimed to develop influenza countermeasures — diagnostic tools, therapies and vaccines.

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PlayStation Side Effects: Palmar Hidradenitis

PlayStation Side Effects. Do you have PlayStation palmar hidradenitis? If you spend a lot of your time in front of your PlayStation, then you just might have this PlayStation palmar hidradenitis thingie.

But what is it? Well, it is a new skin disorder caused by your constant use of games consoles. Check out this BBC report on a swiss girl who was diagnosed with this new disease.

Doctors who examined her at the Geneva University Hospital concluded she had a condition known as ‘idiopathic eccrine hidradenitis’, a skin disorder that generally causes red, sore lumps on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

The patient had not participated in any sport or physical exercise recently, and could not recall any recent trauma involving her hands.

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