Showing posts with label foot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foot. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2011

Foot and mouth has not improved much

In fact, according to statistics of the health sector, the service tends to decrease, but very slowly. To date, nearly two months, number of infected hand, foot and mouth has not improved much.

The epidemic has spread to the provinces 61/63 and cities across the country. Meanwhile, according to forecasts by the Ministry of Health, the disease will continue to rise to 11.

Compared to some countries in the region in recent years the situation in our country is also at alarming levels. In 2008, occurred hand, foot and mouth disease in Singapore but also cost more than 15,000 cases.

Particularly in China, in 2009 there are over 1.1 million children with hand, foot and mouth, 353 deaths. On average, more than 380,000 cases with 117 deaths, while in Vietnam by the end of September, nearly 62,000 new cases but there have been 114 deaths. Extent of disease is very slow due to changes in personal hygiene practices and sanitation for children of parents and carers is progressing slowly.

The participation of agencies, branches and mass organizations in the prevention of diseases in the locality has not been positive, and entrusted mainly to the health sector.

For these reasons, again published translation problem was posed. Pursuant to the Law on prevention of infectious diseases and the announcement of hand, foot and mouth disease under the jurisdiction of the province.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Weighty words

Acre

An acre describes an area of land and comes for the old English word aecar, meaning a ploughed field. It was the area a team of oxen could plough in one day. In the UK in 1824, an acre was set as 4,840 square yards.

Celsius
A temperature scale invented in 1742by Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. A Celsius degree is 1/100th of the difference between the freezing and boiling points of water (0 degree and 100 degree).

Fahrenheit
This temperature scale was devised by German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit. On this scale the freezing point of water is 32 degree.

Foot
Foot originally meant the average length of an adult foot, and has been used since ancient times. Before France invented the metric system, the French foot was based on the length of the Emperor Charlemagne’s foot.

Gram/kilogram
Gram comes from the same ancient Greek word that gave us grammar, and means a marked-off division. A kilogram is 1,000 grams; kilo comes from the Greek chilioi, meaning one thousand