Silent Epidemic of Cancer Spreading Among Men

Jason Mendelsohn had been married for close to 20 years and was happily raising three kids when he noticed the painless lump on his neck while shaving three years ago.
Within days, he had been diagnosed with a deadly form of cancer caused by a virus that he probably caught while in college, decades before.

Mendelsohn, now 48, is the classic victim of head and neck cancer caused by HPV, the human papillomavirus. A new study out this week shows there's a silent epidemic of HPV-related cancers among men.

Meet the man who spent $9 million on a license plate

F

or high-rolling drivers in the United Arab Emirates, no car is complete without a single-digit license plate.

The oil-rich country's wealthy elite are willing to drop millions of dollars to get their hands on one.

Dubai property developer Balwinder Sahni wanted a highly coveted plate bearing the number 5. He wanted it so much, he bid 33 million dirhams ($9 million) for it at a government auction earlier this month.

Abandoned Nigerian medical scholars in Caribbean take to stealing

Sixteen Nigerian medical students studying in St Vincent and Grenadines in the Caribbean, under the Rivers State Scholarship scheme, have resorted to stealing and fraudulent acts to survive, just as they are reportedly being starved of their monthly upkeep allowances and tuition fees for close to two years.




Cross section of the abandoned 16 Medical scholars in the Caribbean.

The aggrieved final year students who spoke separately, said that two of the medical students who are billed to graduate with the other 14 this October, went into stealing when it was apparent they didn’t know where their next meal will come from.

At the time of filing this report, some of the students (males and females) confirmed that they had not eaten for three days, let alone pay school fees.

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Zika Virus Transmitted Through Sexual Intercourse

A rare case of the Zika Virus being transmitted through sex has been reported in the US. Zika Virus was initially reported to be transmitted by mosquito bite.

A Patient infected in Dallas County, Texas has contracted the virus through sexual contact with an infected person who travelled to Venezuela. Several cases of Zika virus had been confirmed across the United States, but only among people who were believed to have contracted the virus while traveling abroad in countries with active Zika virus outbreaks. The case in Dallas is the first time that experts believe a person with Zika symptoms contracted the virus within the United States.
Zika is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains.

Thailand Supernatural Dolls

A craze for eerily lifelike supernatural dolls has swept Thailand in recent months.

Their name, "luk thep", literally translates as "child angels" and people believe they bring good fortune and they are pampered by their owners as if they were children.

But the privileges lavished upon them have also drawn a backlash and warnings from Thai authorities.

They get blessings from Buddhist monks

After purchasing a doll, the owner brings it to a monk who conducts a prayer and an anointing ceremony known as "plook sek".

Zika Virus: Up to four million Zika cases Predicted

The World Health Organization has set up a Zika "emergency team" after the "explosive" spread of the virus.

Most people have no symptoms, but WHO expects "three to four million cases of Zika virus disease" in the Americas.

WHO director general Dr Margaret Chan said Zika had gone "from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions" and was having a "heart-breaking" impact.
The team will meet on Monday to decide whether Zika should be treated as a global emergency.
The last time an international emergency was declared was for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa which has killed more than 11,000 people.