Zika Virus Symptoms, Diagnosis, & Treatment

Symptoms, Diagnosis, & Treatment

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Symptoms

• About 1 in 5 people infected with Zika virus become ill (i.e., develop Zika).
• The most common symptoms of Zika are fever, rash, joint pain, or conjunctivitis (red eyes). Other common symptoms include muscle pain and headache. The incubation period (the time from exposure to symptoms) for Zika virus disease is not known, but is likely to be a few days to a week.
• The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week.
• Zika virus usually remains in the blood of an infected person for a few days but it can be found longer in some people.
• Severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon.
• Deaths are rare.

Diagnosis

• The symptoms of Zika are similar to those of dengue and chikungunya, diseases spread through the same mosquitoes that transmit Zika.
• See your healthcare provider if you develop the symptoms described above and have visited an area where Zika is found.
• If you have recently traveled, tell your healthcare provider when and where you traveled.
• Your healthcare provider may order blood tests to look for Zika or other similar viruses like dengue or chikungunya.

Treatment

• No vaccine or medications are available to prevent or treat Zika infections.
• Treat the symptoms:
  • Get plenty of rest.
  • Drink fluids to prevent dehydration.
  • Take medicine such as acetaminophen to relieve fever and pain.
  • Do not take aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), like ibuprofen and naproxen. Aspirin and NSAIDs should be avoided until dengue can be ruled out to reduce the risk of hemorrhage (bleeding). If you are taking medicine for another medical condition, talk to your healthcare provider before taking additional medication.
• If you have Zika, prevent mosquito bites[PDF - 2 pages] for the first week of your illness.
  • During the first week of infection, Zika virus can be found in the blood and passed from an infected person to another mosquito through mosquito bites.
  • An infected mosquito can then spread the virus to other people.

Top 10 Tips When Getting Started On Tsū

Top 10 Tips When Getting Started On Tsū

1) First things first… Upload a PROFILE PICTURE and COVER PHOTO.

I can’t speak for everybody, but I know that I am very picky with whom I accept as a friend. If you don’t have a picture, then how are we going to know who you are?
A cover photo is also a great way to show people who you are, what you do, or what you’re interested in.

2) Get to know your limits.

• You can have a total of 5,000 FRIENDS
• You can have UNLIMITED FOLLOWERS
• You can FOLLOW 1,000 people, initially
• You can LIKE 1,000 times per 24 hours
• You can COMMENT 1,000 times per 24 hours
• You can FOLLOW 500 times per 24 hours
• You can have 50 outstanding FRIEND REQUESTS at a time
• You can POST 40 times per 24 hours
• You can SHARE 12 times per 24 hours
• You can MENTION (@username) 10 people per post/comment
• You can HASHTAG (#hashtag) 10 tags per post/comment
  Read the Tsū FAQ’s Here

3) DO NOT SPAM.
There is nothing more annoying than users who just write “nice”, “like”, or “fine” on everything they see! I understand that sometimes you really DO think something is “nice” and that is OK!… but at least take the time to write 3 or more words. Other forms of spam include posts asking you to comment, like, or share to earn $10. Help us put an end to these and please don’t spread them.
DO NOT USE THE HASHTAGS: #Follow4Follow , #Like4Like , #Share etc…

4) Post Original Content.
The best posts on Tsū are Genuine, Original, and Add Value. I can’t tell you how many times I see the EXACT SAME images posted over and over and over again… You are not contributing to the network and you run the risk of copyright infringement, meaning, you might not be allowed to collect your cheque at $100! Always put 100% into each and every post. Create your own personal brand and use Hashtags relevant to your content in order for more people to find it!

5) Engage With Your Audience.
Always take the time to thank a person for sharing one of your posts when you see it. If you don’t engage with the people commenting and sharing your stuff, eventually they will stop!I make the effort to go through my notifications and see who’s mentioning me in posts, Who’s talking to me in comments, and who’s Sharing and Commenting on my stuff. By thanking these people and showing gratitude, you can build relationships and meet like minded people!

6) Invite Your Friends To Join You.
The benefit to inviting people to this platform is that it helps the entire community grow, thus in turn bringing in more money for the company. The more money there is, the moreShared Economics there are.

When you invite somebody using your Short Code, you partake in their shared economics too!
Your short code is your Username: www.tsu.co/Kimjen

This link not only tracks who you invite, who they invited and who they invited, but the link also tracks how the revenues are earned and shared through your family tree. Be sure to welcome new TsŪsers to the network and shout-out anybody you personally invite via the #nmshoutout

7) Distinguish Between Friends vs. Followers.

Friends
If you are friends with a user, then each of you automatically follow each other, and you will share both levels of content in your feeds (‘Public’ and ‘Friends Only’ posts). We do not yet have ‘Private’ or ‘Restricted’ options to control content visibility to Friends. We suggest only befriending people you actually know or want to know. Trust us on this one!

Followers
If you follow a user, you can see their ‘Public’ posts. Users you follow will not see your ‘Public’ posts unless they choose to follow you. Likewise you can have Followers that you choose not to Follow. There is NO NEED to Follow AND Friend the same person seeing as how there are limits to the amount of people you can have of each and they both accomplish the same thing. Be selective with the people you accept as your friend and make sure they are relevant to your interests or target audience. The number of friends you have on here does not make any difference if they aren’t engaging with you, so don’t feel obligated to follow someone back just because they are following you.

8) Be Patient.
Just remember that while it is possible to make a lot of money on Tsū, you’re going to have to put up with a few pennies along the way. You have to allow time for the COMPOUND EFFECT to sink in, and you have to be CONSISTENT in your activity… If 30 minutes a day is all you have time for, then make sure it’s 30 minutes EVERY day.

9) Join Others In Challenges.
A great way to interact with others, and be productive with your time on Tsū, is to join in on challenges… There are many great, user inspired, challenges happening on a daily basis! These challenges could be anything from; taking a silly picture, to doing some sort of physical activity and tagging others to do the same. Most of the time these challenges are accompanied with a donation to a charity (sort of like the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge). These sort of post are the best because they follow all of the rules!

• They are original and can’t be found anywhere else online.
• They are engaging and interactive.
• They expand your audience by using relevant hashtags.
• They allow you to get to know other users too.
• They typically bring in quite a few dollars for charity and raise A LOT of awareness!Be sure to credit the Challenge creator by mentioning them in the post.

10) Step Up And Become A Leader.
One of the most important things, often overlooked by people, is that WE are the ones responsible for the success or failure of this platform! Our CEO is a fantastic guy, and brilliant to say the least, but he understands that it’s the users who encourage and stimulate the growth of the platform by how well they interact and keep people coming back! Keep in mind that this platform is still under 1 year old. There is plenty of room for anybody to emerge as one of the top influencers that people look up to. If you follow all of these tips, you will find yourself building a name in no time! Leaders don’t create followers, they create other leaders, so make sure that the people you bring to Tsū stay plugged in, guide them to this website so they can learn and have fun with this wonderful Social Network.

Tsu Hashtags Your Way To Earn

Hashtags

Your Ticket to Enter a New Level

When using any social platform, the way that I and a great and growing number of others are using those platforms is with the help of #hashtags!

When I am looking to find content from friends, if that is not being displayed in my feed, then I search a hashtag like #FractalDesigns then all of a sudden -Bam★Pow★Bang★Zoink-, I am looking at the desired content.

The hashtag is a descriptive search in itself, the new hyperlink, just clicking it makes it go get the stuff you want.

Are you doing this;

searching for the content you choose to see, instead of scrolling a long list of content displayed by the time it was posted?

It does come down to Time, unless of course you have a never ending supply of it. Not many people can say they do!

Speeding Up The Process

Hashtags help you to speed up the process by gathering Only content that has been posted with a certain #hashtag in the actual post.

Example:

Here are some of the hashtags that I choose to describe my work with when posting on social sites;

#wallpaper #fractals #jwildfire #fractalart

They are generic and if others also use those hashtags, then when you click it, you get it all!

I am the sort of user who likes to let others use my work as free wallpapers for their devices and pc’s, so I use the #wallpaper hashtag for people searching for that and if they are searching for fractals, then I use #fractals or maybe they want to see what is possible in the program I use to create fractal art, then I use #fractalart and jwildfire.

When of course, your aim is to drive some traffic to your own website, it is a good idea to create a new hashtag just to use for that purpose.

This is my personal hashtag; #FractalDesigns, I use it on nearly every single post that I make.

Another way to use them is for finding your way back to content, especially on tsū, when you get your shares limited daily!

For this type of use, I create something like #comebackCraig and others have their favourite for doing the same like #returninglater or similar.

Anything will work as long as you remember it!

Putting the Hashtag to Work for You

So, if you want to grow your following and get more people sharing your content, then putting the Hashtag to work for you is a lot less effort and saves you spending more Time on the promotion of your content.

If you have cool hashtags that people can find your content faster and more directly, why not list it/them in the comments below!

Don’t forget! GOOGLE is Indexing tsū content and in turn Hashtags found around the Web.

You can also use hashtags to link a series of content together so that others can see a whole series in one place, without other content preventing you from seeing what you want like:

#ThreeTsuSphericalFlames

Wouldn’t that be a good idea to search on Google for a hashtag and see what comes in from the web and not just a single platform like tsū.co ?

PAYMENT PROOF

TSU

When asking Google if the social network Tsu is legit you may run into this auto suggestion: ‘Tsu is ownership of content’ – but what does this mean? Well, as an content creator you automatically own the copyright to your work. It doesn’t matter if you are an artist with a formal education or just a hobbyist that loves to paint, draw or take pictures with your camera or phone.

You can do whatever you want with your newly created content. Upload it to your website, post it on Facebook and / or Google+, tweet it out to the whole world or just let it sit in one of these dark edges on your hard drive so it can gather some dust. If you want to do so you can even give it away for free. I don’t count how often I get asked if I could give away one of my pictures for a “we don’t have any budget for the photos” project.

But: others need to have your permission to use your photos, paintings and drawings. If anyone finds one of your images in the Google search she / he have to contact you before using it for their blog or website.

So what’s about social networks? You captured this wonderful sunset with amazing orange clouds in a dramatic sky. Your friends should see it! Uploading the picture to a social network of your choice is a breeze. Soon you will get some comments, likes and maybe even shares.

Places like Facebook need content and engagement like this to get their business running. And the goal of this business is very clear: selling advertisements. Facebook is a great place for advertisers to run paid ads, boosted posts and much more. Facebook make lots and lots of money with their Ads and the advertisers may make some Dollars with the very clever ad targeting system Facebook has.

And what’s about you, the user? The person who uploads his own content, likes, comments and shares posts from others? Do you get compensated for doing this? No?

Here is a quote from Tsu founder Sebastian Sobczak: ‘Established social networks have built amazing business models prospering on the total monetization of free user-generated content. Why should anyone commercially benefit from someone else’s image, likeness and work giving no financial return to the owner? The markets we participate in are enormous, growing and can materially compensate each user – we’re simply and uniquely rewarding the users who are doing all the work. This is the way the world should work.’

Tsu gives 90% of its ad revenues to the users. So while doing whatever you do on other social networks you can earn some cash for your content and your engagement.

To say it more precise: Tsu is payed ownership of content. And yes, Tsu is legit – trust me and many other users about this. 

Join Tsu Here:

http://www.tsu.co/Kimjen

Microsoft Surface 3 Review

Microsoft Surface 3 Review: Laptop Destroyer

Previous attempts to cross breed laptop and tablet has spawned some questionable creations that have been rightly consigned to the history books, filed under ‘oops’.

Not so with Microsoft MSFT -1.1%’s Surface range. The tablet/laptop (tabtop?) in question is the Surface 3, the slightly less glitzy version of the Surface Pro 3. It’s aimed at casual users and students I’m told, and the price is supposed to reflect that.

The basic version of the Surface 3 costs $499, but the full, pro version costs $799, which includes a more powerful processor, quad-HD display and larger screen. That $499 rises to $628 when you add the keyboard accessory, which is a lot of money for a tablet. There’s certainly nothing casual or studenty about that price.

But in comparison to its Android and iOS rivals – the iPad Air and the SonyXperia Z4 – it comes in cheaper than both. Indeed, it’s the ‘lite’ version, so you’d expect it to be cheaper, but – for that price  - you get a lot more than you would from a standard tablet…

Design and accessories

Image credit: Jay McGregor

What’s immediately clear is that the Surface 3 isn’t a conventional tablet. It’s not obsessed with its silhouette like the ultra thin iPad Air 2 or Sony Xperia tablets. It’s thicker width might put some off, but there’s a functional reason for it: a full size USB 3.0 port. Microsoft is unashamed of that, because this Surface range is squarely aimed at productivity enthusiasts.

With that said, it’s as thin as a full-size USB allows it to be. Given that it’s thinner than the average laptop – and it’s pitching itself as a superior replacement – then there’s no problem here.

The magnesium alloy casing and angular shape makes the Surface 3 feel like an expensive, professional piece of kit. On the back there’s a practical non-flimsy kick-stand that sharply clicks into place when pulled out and pushed back in, underneath the kickstand is a subtle microSD slot.  Around the edges are the sturdy volume and power buttons – that reward you with a satisfying click when pushed – the full size USB port, a micro USB port and mini DisplayPort.

Image credit: Jay McGregor

Across the bottom is the magnetic connector that the Type Cover accessory (keyboard) attaches too. The keyboard has been been shrunken from the Surface Pro 3’s to accommodate for the smaller sized device. It’s narrow, but not unuseable. The back-lit touch keyboard is responsive and the keys have a good bounce to them. The trackpad is hilariously small though, you’re better off using touch to navigate around the interface.

There’s also a very swish stylus that accompanies tablet, although it’s sold seperately. It does all of the things you’d expect a stylus to do, but it also has some extra, useful, functionality. In particular, the button at the top of the pen instantly opens up One Note, even when the tablet is asleep, which means you can quickly take notes without having to go through the rigmarole of finding and opening the app – although you do have to be logged in. The idea is that the Surface can replace the speed of using pen and paper to quickly jot down a note.

Image credit: Jay McGregor

Curiously, there’s no way of attaching the pen to the tablet. There’s a clip on the top of the pen and the only thing it kind-of clips on to is the keyboard (with a bit of force). It seems strange that a core accessory has no way to stay connected to the main device, especially when it’s something as easily lost as a pen.

Apple Loop: iPhone 6S Feature List, Android Overtakes Apple, Apple Watch's Fifteen Issues

Apple iPhone 6 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (image: Ewan Spence)

Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop looks at the feature list for the iPhone 6S, iOS 8.4 and Beats music, fifteen Apple Watch issues, smartwatch sales projections, security issues over the Apple Watch, mobile advertising breakdowns, the autonomous HD-enabled Lily drone, App Store listing tips, and should Apple buy Greece?

Apple Loop is here to remind you of a few of the very many discussions that have happened around Apple over the last seven days (and you can read our weekly digest of Android news here on Forbes).

Eleven New Features For The iPhone 6S

It might not be announced until September, but details of the iPhone 6S are going to become known as it moves through the external design and manufacturing process. Kicking off the first big tranche of information, Forbes’ Gordon Kelly rounds up the information from KGI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo:

The Talking Point - Force Touch is what will likely prove to be the key selling point of the 6S models. Having introduced it on the Apple Watch and 13-inch MacBook Pro it makes perfect sense for Apple to extend this to the iPhone (and eventually the iPad).

How Apple does this will be crucial. The Apple Watch isn’t immediately intuitive and iPhones already have gesture, swipe and long press commands. Adding another must be done right.

For the eleven bullet points, head on over to his full post.

Beats Still Missing Action With Latest iOS 8.4 Beta

With the ninth updated to iOS (in seven months) being prepared – presumably for WWDC – there are more signs of the integration of Beats software into Apple’s mobile OS. Beta 3 of iOS 8.4 was released yesterday, and Gordon Kelly tries to track down the musical streaming service that is still missing in action:

For a long time iOS 8.3 was rumoured to include the long awaited Spotify rival, but having drifted to iOS 8.4 it is surprising that no test features or even code have given away its existence.

There is still time the Beats streaming service to be dropped in there (Apple typically tends to do four to five iOS betas before official release) or for it to arrive via a dedicated event, but the lack of any telltale signs at this stage is surprising.

Given WWDC is developer focused, Beats might be a better bet for September’s new iPhone launch event – and this would leave more time to negotiate ether deals with the music industry.

Most Stylish Apple Watch Accessories

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Nomad Stand and Pod

The Nomad Stand ($60) comes in Space Grey or Silver, and the Pod ($60) provides up to 4 full charges of Apple Watch.

15 Issues With The Apple Watch Resolved?

As the Apple Watch was launched, 9to5Mac’s Jeremy Horowitz highlighted fifteen issues with Tim Cook’s wearable. One month later, were these issues addressed, were they real concerns, or has time with the watch proved them to be early adopter’s planting some tall poppies? Horowitz returns to his list:

Several reviewers flagged the Watch’s auto-on/auto-off screen as an annoyance for various reasons, primarily its tendency to not actually turn on whenever desired. While the complaints were valid — including ones that the screen turns off too quickly when in the midst of use — the problem is not as pronounced as the worst howls suggested. The feature works most of the time, and when it doesn’t, a tap on the screen turns it on.

Solution: Hopefully, a software update will make the accelerometer a little more generous in recognizing “wrist up” motions, and the OS a little less willing to shut the screen off mid-use. Until then, a quick tap on the screen will suffice.

Nineteen Million Apple Watches In 2015

IHS Technologies has been looking at the smartwatch market, and while the headline number for projected smartphone sales in 2020 is a nice 1010 million, I’m more interested in its prediction for sales of the Apple Watch this year… around 19 million. Forbes’ Paul Lamkin:

IHS’ forecasts are based on Apple shifting around 19 million of its just-launched smartwatches this year; resulting in an estimated 56% of the market share.

That’s a pretty conservative prediction as, back in November, Morgan Stanley forecast 30 million Apple Watch sales in 2015. “Our 30m unit estimate implies 10% penetration into Apple’s 315m iPhone 5 or newer installed base exiting 2014, which is lower than iPad penetration of 14% in its first year but higher than iPhone at 7%,” it said.

Back to the IHS forecast and it’s stating, by 2020, the Cupertino tech giant’s share of the market would have shrunk to 38%, with 96 million Android Wear shipments helping Google to a 22% piece of the wearable pie. That leaves 40% of non-Apple or Google smartwatches – with the likes of Pebble, Microsoft and even Samsung, with its own Tizen software, potentially playing catch-up.

The big unknown in all of these numbers is just how the public will take to the smartwatch – the geekerati love the computer on the wrist but that’s not enough users to build a sustainable and profitable market.