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On Thursday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said that three people have lost their lives due to complications associated with the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Maduro said that Zika’s suspected cases had risen to 5,221.

Brazil said on Thursday that three people who lost their lives previous year suffered from Zika virus, though authorities don’t have any evidence that Zika solely was behind their deaths.

Just one in five people suffering from Zika experience illness and even then they are usually mild symptoms. Scientists so far haven’t succeeded in fully understanding the virus and so far there is no proof showing that it causes the birth deformations or any death reports.

In an announcement yesterday, Conservative Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he would impose an inferior contract on 55,000 junior doctors in England after it failed in reaching an agreement with the British Medical Association (BMA).

Addressing Parliament, Hunt said that the negotiator of the government Sir David Dalton had reached to an agreement on 90% of issues with the BMA, but so far no contract agreement had been finalized by a deadline of the earlier evening.

A new study has suggested that risk of dementia has been declining dramatically, but scientists don’t know reason behind the decline. Since the late 1970s, the chronic disorder of cognitive abilities is on the decline, as per the study featured in the New England Journal of Medicine.

For the last more than four decades, the risk of developing dementia has declined with a rate of 20% every decade. The study has released its results at a time when it was predicted that cases of dementia, also known senility, will loom in future.

Nothing is horrifying for a surgeon than performing a wrong surgery on a patient, but Tennessee hospital doctors committed the mistake during a major surgery. A local mother alleged that the doctors performed a surgery on her newborn that was actually meant for another baby.

According to Jennifer Melton, mother of little Nate, she thought the team of doctors was taking her baby for a typical exam, but just a few hours after Nate took birth, they performed a tongue clipping procedure, Frenulectomy, on him. The surgery was meant for another infant, said Melton. Now, the mother has planned to sue the hospital for the wrongful procedure.

Frenulectomy is a procedure which involves clipping a flap of skin that links a person’s tongue and mouth to allow freer range of motion.

The mystery behind what caused a unique crack in the ground of Menominee, Michigan, five years ago in October 2010 has been cracked. Faculty and student researchers from Michigan Technological University, on studying the area for long, concluded that the pop-up occurred due to release of underground pressure on the limestone rock in the area.

The residents of the area experienced around 15 seconds of unusual movements, they thought that it was an earthquake, but scientists believed that it wasn’t an earthquake as it didn't register on a seismograph. Rather the movement was caused by something else.

NASA is all set to launch its first manned mission to Mars soon in near future, but still NASA finds the need to do more research into what astronauts should eat in order to survive their long trip to Mars that will take approximately three years.