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This type of bleeding occurs after the disease progresses and causes blood poisoning. The medical term for this is meningococcal septicemia. It leads to broken blood vessels, and they can resemble a rash, which doctors call a petechial rash.
The meningitis rash may be harder to see on darker skin. Look for small spots on paler parts of the body, such as the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet.
Usually, the rash is not raised, so the skin is unlikely to feel rough or bumpy.
At first, the rash may be mild and subtle, but it can spread to larger areas of skin. It may also become darker in color as the bleeding continues. The rash usually occurs in the later stages of meningitis, when the disease becomes even more serious.
It is important to seek medical treatment for any symptoms of meningitis, even if no rash is present. Receiving quick treatment greatly increases the chances of recovery and survival.
Other types of meningitis produce other rashes. If a person has any rash and symptoms of meningitis, they should seek medical care right away.
Image credit: CDC/ Heinz F. Eichenwald, MD, 1958.
Image credit: CDC/ Heinz F. Eichenwald, MD, New York Hospital, Cornell Univ.; Ann Cain, 1958.
Anyone can get meningitis. However, in the United States, rates are highest in babies younger than 1 year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Symptoms do not appear in any particular order. A doctor should check a child who has any symptoms of meningitis.
If meningitis progresses to septicemia, a child may develop a rash or unusual skin coloration. This can happen within a matter of hours, as meningitis often progresses quickly.
Teens and young adults have a higher risk of meningitis than middle-aged or older adults. The National Meningitis Association say that 21 percent of all meningococcal disease occurs between the ages of 11 and 24.
The glass test can help people who are unsure whether they have meningitis. Though it is not a reliable way to diagnose any disease, this test can help a person decide whether to go to an emergency room.
Press a clear drinking glass against the rash. If the rash and marks are visible even while pressing down on the glass, seek medical help immediately.
This is a sign that the rash is petechial. Petechial rashes can result from meningitis or other serious illnesses that cause bleeding.
A meningitis rash can be difficult to see, especially on people with darker skin. Examine lighter areas of skin, such as the palms of the hands or the bottoms of the feet. Try the glass test on any areas of rash that are visible.
The glass test is not a foolproof way to decide whether a person needs medical care. Anyone with meningitis symptoms should receive medical help right away, even if their rash fades with pressure under the glass.
A person with a petechial rash does not necessarily have meningitis.
A range of health issues can cause petechial rashes, which is why it is important to pay attention to other symptoms.
Noticing other changes in a person's well-being can help with identifying meningitis and other serious illnesses that require immediate medical care.
In this article, we discuss the causes, symptoms, and treatments of meningitis.
If a person tests positive for bacterial meningitis, the doctor will prescribe antibiotics designed to treat the infection.
Sometimes doctors prescribe antibiotics right away, even if they do not know whether the infection is caused by bacteria. This is a precaution, because bacterial meningitis tends to be more serious than viral meningitis.
Doctors may treat fungal meningitis with antifungal medicines.
Meningitis that results from a viral infection does not respond to antibiotics or antifungal medications. Milder cases of viral meningitis may go away on their own, while more severe cases require hospital care. A doctor may use antiviral medications to treat certain types of this disease.
A person with meningitis may need anti-seizure medicines as well as steroids to reduce brain inflammation.
Meningitis can cause headaches and memory loss.
One of the best ways to prevent many types of meningitis is to get vaccinated. The CDC recommend meningococcal vaccines for everyone at 11–12 years of age, with a booster dose at age 16.
Vaccination may be especially crucial for children and adults who have a higher risk of meningococcal disease.
The outlook for meningitis depends on many factors. The cause of the disease and a person's risk factors help determine their chances of a full recovery.
Seek emergency medical care if someone has any symptoms of meningitis. In general, prompt treatment greatly increases the chance of survival and reduces the risk of long-term complications.
Berry, Jennifer. "Meningitis rash: Pictures, symptoms, and test." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 18 Mar. 2019. Web.
Larry Evans, a five-time United States chess champion and prolific writer who helped Bobby Fischer win the world championship in 1972, died Monday in Reno, Nev. He was 78.
Mr. Evans, who lived in Reno, died of complications of gall bladder surgery, according to the Web site of the United States Chess Federation, the governing body for the game.
Mr. Evans was an editor of the 10th edition of “Modern Chess Openings,” long a mainstay for tournament players. He also founded American Chess Quarterly and edited it from 1961 to 1965. The book that Mr. Evans was probably most famous for was one on which he assisted: Mr. Fischer’s “My 60 Memorable Games.” He cajoled and exhorted Mr. Fischer to finish the book, edited and helped him with the prose and wrote introductions to all the games.
During Mr. Fischer’s prelude to the world championship, Mr. Evans was what is known in chess as his second. He helped him train and prepare for his matches against Mark Taimanov, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian. Before the championship match in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1972 against Boris Spassky, Mr. Evans and Mr. Fischer had a falling out. Frank Brady, Mr. Fischer’s biographer, speculated that the rift was over Mr. Evans’s desire to have his wife, Ingrid, accompany them on the trip, which lasted more than two months.
Larry Melvyn Evans was born March 22, 1932, in Manhattan. Growing up, he hustled games for dimes on 42nd Street. He won the championship of the prestigious Marshall Chess Club on West 10th Street at 15 and was New York State champion by 18. In 1950, he played for the United States team in the biennial Chess Olympiad in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, and took an individual gold medal. He went on to play on seven more Olympiad teams, including the one that won the gold medal in Haifa, Israel, in 1976.
In 1951, at 19, he won his first United States championship. He defended the title a year later in a match against Herman Steiner. He won the title again in 1961, 1968 and 1980, when he tied for first with Walter Browne and Larry Christiansen. He also won four United States Open championships. The World Chess Federation awarded him the title of grandmaster in 1957.
In the 1960s, Mr. Evans moved to Reno when he discovered he had another talent: counting cards. “He had a memory that he built up from chess,” Dr. Brady said. “He could memorize cards, and he wasn’t making any money from chess in those days. Nobody was.” His other profession did not last. “He made a lot of money and he kept getting banned from casino to casino,” Dr. Brady said.
Mr. Evans is survived by his wife, an artist and photographer, and two stepsons.
Mr. Evans had a few successes in international tournaments, among them a first at Portimo, Portugal, in 1975. But he rarely played internationally, and in his one attempt to qualify for the world championship, at the Amsterdam Interzonal in 1964, he finished 14th.
SAN FRANCISCO - When Google's parent company Alphabet started Chronicle, one of the basic promises was to live up to the name and help organizations to 'chronicle' their cyber-security activities.
At an event alongside the RSA Conference 2019 here, Chronicle officially announced its Backstory service which enables enterprises to search though network security data rapidly to identify risks and attacks. Backstory is being positioned by Chronicle as a threat hunting platform that can find issues in different aspects of an enterprise network.
"It's the only platform that lets you search multiple petabytes of data in milliseconds," Mike Wiacek, chief security officer and co-founder, said during the event. "Backstory gives an enterprise security team unparalleled and instant access to their past, present and future security."
Chronicle was founded in January 2018 and Backstory represents the group's first new unique product. Chronicle is also home to VirusTotal, which Google acquired in 2012, and became part of Google's parent company Alphabet's Chronicle division as part of the January 2018 launch. Chronicle has been actively improving VirusTotal, announcing the VirusTotal Enterprise service in September 2018. Wiacek explained to eWEEK that VirusTotal and Backstory each fulfil different needs.
"VirusTotal is like a window into what's happening with malware and emerging threats," Wiacek said. "Backstory is a window into the enterprise."
Stephen Gillet, CEO and Co-founder fo Chronicle (pictured) added that Backstory provides additional data sets beyond what VirusTotal has access to. With Backstory he said that network and DNS telemetry is available to organizations among other sources of data.
"It's all the other things that your enterprise will care about it," Gillet said.
Gillet added that the name Chronicle itself is core to the mission of the company that Backstory will now help to fulfil.
"We actually got the name Chronicle because when we started to work customers, we ended up telling them stories about their security relevant data that in many cases they have never seen," Gillet said.
During the event, concerns were raised my members of the media about the potential for Google to snoop on the Chronicle's enterprise data. While Google and Chronicle are both part of Alphabet, Gillet emphasized that his company is not a division of Google and Google will not have access to Chronicle's Backstory customer data.
"Google people can't even badge into our buildings and we're a completely separate company from them and we don't share data back to Google," Gillet said.
Overall the really big push with Backstory is to make it easy for enterprise to search, discover and benefit from their own security data.
"There's a democratization of security capability with Backstory," Wiacek said. "One of the I have been preaching around the office for a while is that Backstory needs to make good analyst great and great analysts superstars."
A Venezuela bolivar note worth $2.42 on the black market will begin circulating as early as Thursday, lightening the load for people who carry backpacks full of cash for their daily errands.
A Venezuela bolivar note worth $2.42 on the black market will begin circulating as early as Thursday, lightening the load for people who carry backpacks full of cash for their daily errands. The 100,000-bolivar denomination, which will be the country’s largest, seeks to stabilize the cash supply, President Nicolas Maduro said on state television. He blamed Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos for the monetary “attack,” alluding to the black market trading of the bolivar on the countries’ shared border.
“We have been updating the monetary cone while facing this attack on the currency,” Maduro said, suggesting that a “definitive solution” would mean almost completely eliminating cash transactions by next year. Inflation, which the IMF estimated may exceed 2,300 percent next year, has caused cash shortages while the arrival of higher denomination bills has done little to solve the problem. The government is also hoarding dollars from oil exports and loans to make a $1.2 billion debt payment due Thursday.
Venezuela’s bolivar is worth 41,290 to the dollar on the black market, while the government’s weakest of two official exchange rates is 3,345 bolivars to the dollar. Earlier, Maduro announced a 30 percent minimum wage increase ahead of December municipal elections and the holiday season. He also approved a one-time 500,000-bolivar “special Christmas bonus” to benefit 4 million households, adding that the government would give every child a toy and each household up to six kilograms of pork shoulder, a season favorite.
Cameroon, a central-western African country, has absorbed the ideas and traditions of many peoples. The culture of beer brewing is traced back to the time the land was a German colony in the late 19th century, and its people embraced football from the British. Cameroonians live in large cities and rural areas and hail from many racial backgrounds; over 280 languages are spoken. Visitors to Cameroon get a taste of Africa in this one country, thanks to the variety of climates and habitats, including rain forests, deserts, mountains, coastline and savanna.
The capital city of Yaounde, in Centre Province, is home to the Musee d'Art Camerounais, which features brass sculptures, pottery, textiles and masks. The museum is connected to the Benedictine monastery, where visitors can listen to the monks sing for mass.
See gorillas, chimpanzees and several species of monkeys at the Limbe Wildlife Centre in Cameroon's Southwest Province. The center was founded in 1993 to help preserve endangered species. Today, education programs, animal rescue and veterinary care are the main goals. Visitors may work directly with the animals as part of the temporary volunteer program. Participants make a monetary donation and work at the center for one to three months.
West Africa's largest mountain, Mount Cameroon, is also an active volcano. The mountain on the west coast of Cameroon rises 13,435 feet above sea level. Join a hiking tour with the nonprofit Mount Cameroon Inter-Communal Ecotourism Board and see elephants, chimpanzees, antelopes and other species, as well as members of the Bakweri tribe who live in the area.
Visit Korup National Park, where there are over 600 species of trees and 1,000 species of butterflies. Many mammals, reptiles and birds also live in the park. Enter over one of two suspended bridges. During the rainy season between the months of August and October, access by road is difficult, but you can take a boat from the town of Idenau.
In the city of Foumban sits the Palace Royale, which has a design based on medieval architecture. The palace is the home of the sultan, ruler of the Bamoun people. It was built in 1917 and now includes a museum boasting many cultural artifacts of the Bamoun, including masks, weaponry and jewelry.
Sleep in a native grass hut in the village of Rhumsiki in the far north of Cameroon. Nestled in the Mandara mountains, the village faces Rhumsiki Peak, where experienced climbers attempt to tackle the summit. Tourists can learn about the culture of the Kapsiki people and go on an excursion into the mountains with a guide.
Surrounded by the Dja river, the Dja Biosphere Reserve is one of the best-protected nature reserves in Africa, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Ninety percent of the rain forest there is undisturbed. This World Heritage Site is home to a population of nearly 3,000 Baka Pygmies, and hundreds of species of plants and animals. Tourism to the region is difficult because of its location, but eco-tourism into the reserve is beginning to blossom.
Armstrong, Catherine. "Famous Places in Cameroon." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/famous-places-cameroon-35588.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
Sangamon County sheriff’s deputies have arrested two people in connection with a house burglary at the corner of Illinois 54 and Buffalo Hart Road that happened about 5 p.m. Monday.
A third person thought to be connected with the crime was still at large Tuesday.
Deputies arrested one of two men who allegedly fled the rural house after the homeowner and a neighbor caught them trying to take a television and two long guns, according to Chief Deputy Jack Campbell.
A woman who was inside an SUV parked in the house’s driveway and who fled after the confrontation was arrested Monday afternoon in the nearby Irisdale subdivision.
Campbell said he hoped to have an arrest warrant for the third man by late Tuesday.
The sheriff’s office has not released the names of the two arrestees. Campbell said their identities are being withheld because investigators are trying to learn whether they are responsible for any other crimes.
Campbell said he plans to release the names today.
The man who was arrested was brought in by deputies about 10 p.m. Monday after a passerby called authorities and said they saw the man walking near an area where deputies had been searching for him, Campbell said.
A neighbor first spotted the failed burglary. The neighbor saw an SUV pull into the home’s driveway and a man approach the door about 5 p.m., deputies said. The man then waved at the vehicle and a second man got out, officials said.
The pair walked around to the back of the house. A short time later, the homeowner and neighbor confronted the two men, who were holding a television and two guns, deputies said. The two men dropped the television and weapons and fled on foot.
The woman inside the SUV drove away, but the neighbor followed her and called authorities to alert them of her whereabouts, according to deputies.
On Sept. 9, The New Yorker put the definitive tack in Seth Schiesel's balloon over The New York Times writer's eyebrow-raising praise for The Beatles: Rock Band.
It offered a selection of "previous write-ups the Times has given big games." For nonsubscribers, this means "satire incoming."
Since the dawn of man, there have been those with athletic skill and those without. For decades, those men and women without the coördination and skill to play professional football have had to sit idly by, passively watching football games on television and dreaming of futures that could never be. But thanks to Madden NFL '94, impossible dreams will come true. Move over, Helen Keller-there's a new miracle worker in town!
Next month, don't try leaving your home. Lock the doors and barricade the windows. This is not a drill, this is the real f—-ing thing. As soon as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City hits the streets, eleven-year-olds around the country will morph into rabid pit bulls out for blood. This game is evil propaganda designed to teach babies to murder. Hide your possessions and swallow your gold fillings.
Actually, in a newspaper, that last one would sound rather believable.
During a readiness exercise, two Air Force security policemen were guarding entry to a bunker-like structure where aircraft were kept. When a pilot about to do a preflight check approached without his identification in plain view, one of the Air Force security policemen asked him for it. "I don't see why I have to show you my ID," the pilot snapped. "After all, it is my plane." "Sir, with all due respect, it may be your plane," replied the Air Force security man, "but it's sitting in my garage!"
Disney CEO Bob Iger has seen Star Wars Episode VII footage.
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Dave Filoni and more are confirmed for Star Wars Celebration.
Daisy Ridley just got herself a fancy Hollywood agent.
The official Star Wars Timeline is set. Sort of.
Man Utd team news: Predicted line up vs Everton – Romelu Lukaku worry, EIGHT stars out?
MANCHESTER UNITED take on Everton today with a host of injury worries plaguing their squad.
Manchester United have a long injury list ahead of their clash with Everton at Old Trafford this afternoon.