Tourette’s syndrome affects more males, occurs early and tends to regress around 25 years. Tourette Syndrome is a serious neurological disorder characterized by motor tics and sound obsessive and involuntary repetition of words, attention deficit, and sometimes compulsive self-injurious behaviors. These are the symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome, a disease little known in Italy that involves between 500 and 600 thousand people, of which 100 thousand and 10 thousand severe serious. Explains Mauro Porta, neurologist and director of the Center Tourette Extrapyramidal Diseases IRCCS Galeazzi, Milan, single Italian center for the treatment of this disease and also worldwide leader.

“It is a neurological disorder, not psychiatric, as has long been believed. In early onset, usually around 5, 6 years with a male preponderance (the ratio is 5 males 3 females). Reaches its peak at school age and then regress spontaneously around 25 years (two thirds of patients)”
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Now everyone has probably seen the news or heard of fatalities caused by swine flu. It seems that we are facing a pandemic of swine flu, which means that outbreaks are seen around the world. But what exactly and how can we protect ourselves? Swine influenza is a form of influenza that began in pigs but can be captured by, and spread between people. The current outbreak, human infection with swine influenza A (H1N1) virus was confirmed in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other countries. Swine influenza is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by the influenza virus type A. Outbreaks of swine influenza is often the case in pigs.

People do not normally infected by swine influenza, although infections that happens sometimes. Recently, most human cases of swine influenza were people who were in close contact with pigs, such as farmers. During the current outbreak of the virus was transmitted from person to person contact. This has raised concerns that the epidemic could become a pandemic – a worldwide epidemic of flu that spreads rapidly because it is a new type of virus that few of us have a resistance. The normal type of influenza commonly called seasonal influenza caused by the influenza virus exists, it is a common infection that usually occurs during the winter. For most people, life is unpleasant, but not in danger of infection. Those most at risk from him, such as the elderly or those weakened by disease can not be given a vaccination against influenza.
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