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AMITABH BACHCHAN
AS GOODWILL AMBASSADOR
World Health Organization( WHO) has appointed Amitabh Bachchan as its Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis in South-East Asia Region. He has been appointed to boost awareness to stop the spread of hepatitis, which is one of the leading causes of liver cancer and cirrhosis. As an ambassador, Amitabh Bachchan will participate in public awareness programmes to scale up prevention measures, early diagnosis and treatment. It is estimated that around 325 million across the world suffer from chronic hepatitis which is an inflammation of the liver resulting in liver scarring, liver cancer and death if untreated. Hepatitis viruses is one of the common cause of liver damage but other infections, toxic substances such as alcohol, certain medicine, food contaminants, bad lifestyle and autoimmune diseases may also result in chronic hepatitis. Of the five hepatitis viruses, namely, types A, B, C, D and E, types B and C are the most deadly. These two types are mostly responsible for liver damage. Hepatitis viruses B, C and D spread by contact with contaminated blood or body fluids. Hepatitis A and E spreads through unsafe food and drink. Symptoms of Hepatitis include yellowing of the skin and eyes, abdominal pain and swelling, yellow urine, pale or dark stools, chronic fatigue, nausea and loss of appetite. Hepatitis B vaccination are administered at 0, 1, 2, and 6 months to children to protect them against the disease as well as to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the disease.
“ LUNAR PALACE”
China has set up a 160-square-meter( 1,720-square-foot) two men and two women will be sealed inside the cabin for laboratory— dubbed as“ Yuegong-1”, or“ Lunar Palace” an initial stay of 60 days who will then be replaced by another group of four, who will stay for 200 days. Though, for simulating a lunar-like environment. Four Postgraduate students from the Beijing’ s astronautics research university will live in the laboratory for up to 200 days in a bid moon for at least another decade, this project is expected
China does not have any plans to land its astronauts on
to prepare for China’ s long term goal of putting humans to help it prepare lunar explorers for longer stays on the on the moon. The student volunteers would be sealed surface of the moon. inside the cabin with no input from the outside world in China views the programme as a mark of its raising global order to simulate long-term, self-contained space mission. The cabin will have facilities for treatment of human Europe. Recently, China’ s first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-
stature and as a step to catch up with the United States and
wastes through bio-fermentation process. The experimental crops would also be grown in the labratory with the so far China has been largely replicating the activities car-
1, successfully docked with an orbiting space lab. However,
help of food and waste by products. The cabin according ried out by the U. S. and Soviet Union decades ago. It was to Chinese agencies represents the“ world’ s most advanced closed-loop life-support technology so far.” The lishing a permanently manned space station by 2022. China
hailed as a major step towards China’ s ambition of estab-
Lunar Palace is hailed as the world’ s third bioregenerative has an ambitious plan of building a permanent space station by 2022, that will be in the orbit for at least 10 years. In life-support base and the first to be developed in China. The Lunar Palace is the first of its kind facility to involve May 2014, China conducted a 105-day experiment by placing a team comprising of two women and one man from animals and microorganisms as well as plants and humans. It has two plant cultivation modules and a living Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics( BUAA) cabin consisting of four bed cubicles, a common room, a in‘ Moon Palace 1’, a 160-square-meter self-contained laboratory with an intention to prepare for placing astronauts in bathroom, a waste-treatment room and a room for raising animals. Initially, a group of four students comprising outer space for extended periods of time.