Adopting a Child in Britain In the previous section I listed the types of children who are most available for adoption today in Britain. Now I want to discuss each of these groups in more detail. But remember, these groups are merely convenient classifications; each child is an individual, each group includes a spectrum of...
Hepatitis, Viral, Type E
Description Histoplasmosis is a disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. The fungus usually grows in soil enriched with accumulations of bat or bird droppings. The disease is acquired via inhalation of spores (conidia) from soil contaminated with bat or blackbird droppings. Ninety...
Dengue Fever Description Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are viral diseases transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, usually Ae. aegypti. The four dengue viruses (DEN-1 through DEN-4) are immunologically related, but do not provide cross-protective immunity against each other. Occurrence Dengue, a...
Hepatitis, Viral, Type B Description Hepatitis B is a viral infection with clinical manifestations that include anorexia, abdominal discomfort, nausea, and vomiting, and often progresses to jaundice. Severity ranges from inapparent infections detectable only by elevated liver function tests to fulminating, fatal cases...
Top Ten List of Our First Year April 6, 2009, 5:02 pm
I have found that if I sit down and remember how things were when we first brought Mita and Enu home a year ago, I fill up with pride and relief at the progress we have made. It is easy to be disheartened by the mundane everyday activities of parenthood. When you have had to announce to your...
Food Crisis: Guatemala in a State of Calamity September 24, 2009, 6:39 pm
Beauty is not "chubby"; in fact, she has a bit of a belly and would definitely not be classified as either "skinny" or "malnourished". In short, she likes to eat, and it's rather apparent she eats well. She's in the upper percentile for her weight and the girl can surpass her brother's caloric...
Black History Books/Games For Your Child's Class February 11, 2010, 11:15 am
Robyn's latest post about Black History Month has motivated me to write on my own plans for this month. As we are in the middle of a snow-fest and the kids have missed a lot of school, I am a bit behind in my plans! Last year I wrote about the items I had purchased for my children's class...
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