How is rabies transmitted?

To understand how rabies is transmitted or spread from animals to humans and animals to animals, it is important to know what rabies is and how it causes the disease.

Rabies is a deadly disease that is caused by viruses most commonly through bites from the saliva of infected animal hosts. Viruses are small microorganisms that are smaller than bacteria. They grow and multiply inside a living cell. Once the virus enters the body, they travel to the brain, infect it, resulting to a gamut of symptoms that will inevitably lead to death within days once the disease manifests.

10 killed, 33 injured in German train collision

The BBC reported that at least 10 had been killed and 33 people were hurt when a regional passenger train and a freight train clashed in the eastern part of Germany on Saturday 22:30 local time.

The reason why the two trains crashed near the city of Magdeburg in the Saxony-Anhalt state was not immediately clear.

Nelson Mandela recuperating from collapsed lung

An unnamed source close to former South African President Nelson Mandela told Reuters on Thursday that the 92-year-old icon is recuperating from a collapsed lung and could be released by Friday, News24 said on 27 January.

However, with the news blackout, the public is worried plus the fact that many high-profile people were seen visiting the anti-Apartheid leader from the time he was admitted at Johannesburg's Milpark Hospital on Wednesday.

Germany stops donations to fraud-plagued Global Health Fund

Germany will suspend its pledge of $270 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria after a full investigation of fraud allegations in two stories by the The Associated Press on Sunday and Monday, the Monterey County Herald said.

According to an AP report on Sunday, huge sums of contract money goes down the drain to corruption.

Grandma, you've got horns!

Zhang Ruifang is a 101-year-old grandmother of Linlou Village in Henan province of China.

Family members did not much pay attention to the skin outgrowth in her left forehead when it appeared in 2009, according to her youngest son, 60-year-old Zhang Guozheng.

Actor George Clooney contracted malaria again

The MSNBC reported on 20 January that Hollywood actor and philanthropist GeorgeClooney contracted malaria--a disease brought about by bites of infected mosquitoes--during his recent trip to war-torn Sudan, confirmed by his representative to E! News.

The news came from a tweet message by Piers Morgan, "George Clooney has contracted malaria following recent trip to Sudan."

Some facts about sex

Here is another set of truths about sex from OMG Facts Sex. Enjoy reading.

The average weight of a Playboy playmate has increased by 1 lb since the 1960s, while the average height has increased by 2 inches

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A baby can experience an orgasm in the first weeks of life.

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Are pesticides the causes of bees' decline?

A few weeks ago, I reported that a great majority of the agriculturally-useful bumblebee population is vanishing in Asia, Europe and the US.

According to a report by The Telegraph dated 20 January, pesticides could play a role in the population decline of the honeybee--a relative of bumblebee--that may make them susceptible to diseases.

Are you allergic to your own semen?

A condition known as post-orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS) has been documented among men since 2002, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times on 17 January.

These men develop flu-like symptoms after ejaculation, according to Dutch researchers.

Suicide risk for US surgeons twice higher than public

Xinhuanet reported on Tuesday an American College of Surgeons-commissioned study which says that about 6 percent of US surgeons have suicidal thoughts compared to 3 percent of the general population.

According to the new study that was published in the Archives of Surgery this January, one in 16 surgeons entertain these self-destructive thoughts and are not likely to look for help.