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As the 2013 elections drew to a close, memes and hashtags take over social networking sites that reflect on how netizens feel about the initial results of the midterm elections.

As the initial results showed senatorial hopeful Dick Gordon at the cusp of breaking the Magic 12, Twitter users decided to take matters into their own hands by creating the hashtag #IpasokSiDick. Twitter users also reacted to Grace Poe's lead in the senatorial race, and created the hashtag #WagPoeWagPoe. Both Twitter hashtags became top trending topics in the Philippines on Monday evening.

"So if #ipasoksidick is trending now tomorrow hopefully it will be #pasoknasidickJ," a tweet from the @UniversityQuote said.

Many users also went to Twitter to vent their frustration on the initial result of the elections. One Twitter user tweeted "Luto ang eleksyon, sunog ang nanalo" referring to Nancy Binay.

"Grabe! May mga nag text sa akin, di na daw nila shinade yung #5 kasi maitim na daw yun! Grabe! Ang hard nun! #ouch #eleksyon2013,"said other bogus account still referencing Nancy Binay.

Reaction to Nancy Binay's current ranking also did not escape the ire of users on Facebook. One of the most shared photo on Facebook shows a picture of sitting incumbent senators Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Pia Cayetano and re-electionist senator Jamby Madrigal saying "You can't sit with us!" to Nancy Binay, who seemingly appears to be asking for acceptance in the Senate, an imitation from a well-known film Mean Girls. The photo has obtained more than a thousand likes and shares on the said social networking site.

Another meme used the shocked face of the Filipino comedian Vice Ganda, who exaggerated the expression, "oh my god", now used in an election parody with a statement, "4th pa si Nancy? Huumaygaaad!".

Moreover, an apathetic face of the fierce Miriam Defensor-Santiago was posted showing reassurance to the netizens that she will take care of the senators who won without the kind of wisdom and understanding expected from them as the voice of the people. "Sasabuninko kayo!"was even included in the meme.

Among all the senatorial candidates, Nancy Binay had acquired the most number of memes both on Facebook and Twitter. Proving that Filipinos' way of expressing their sense of humor is inevitable hence the continuous spread of memes as a new style of voicing out their criticism and judgment.

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New Delhi, May 13 : The Government today informed the Delhi High Court today that government departments should comply with the ISO 27001 for usage of Facebook and other social networking sites else officers will have to face Civil and Criminal Liability for Non Compliance.

In an affidavit filed before a bench headed by Justice BD Ahmed, the Additional Solicitor General(ASG) Mr Rajiv Mehra said that Social Networking sites do not permit children below 13 years of age for opening accounts or assessing their websites.

Affidavit further says such sites generally verify the age and obtained the permission of the parents of the children below 13 years of the age.

On the contrary terms of the Facebook do not permit opening of accounts by Children below 13 years and for Google Plus agreements consent of parent required for the children from age 13 to 18.

Seeing the discrepancy in the Government the Court directed Government Advocate Mr Sumit Puskarna to filed fresh affidavit by May 22.

The lawyers for Facebook Inc and Google Inc- both US based companies- were present in the court today and sought one week time to file their reply.

Earlier, in another case no one from both US companies of Google and Facebook appeared in the court as the American companies informed the Indian Government that such proceedings are against US laws which protects freedom of speech.

The case pertains to a Public Interest Litigation(PIL) filed by Govindacharya who demanded recovery of all direct and indirect taxes from the social networking sites operating from foreign countries and evading paying of taxes here.

Govindacharya through his lawyer Virag Gupta also sought protection of data being taken by the US companies and demanded that government offices should be banned from using social networking sites as there is high risk of crucial data to be transferred to the foreign land.

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New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) A study has confirmed that rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhoea, the second largest killer of children across the world, and vaccines to contain the virus can change the situation dramatically.

Expanding access to vaccines for rotavirus could save tens of thousands of lives and help avoid hundreds of thousands of hospitalisations, thereby improving the lives of children and families while at the same time reducing significant burden on the health care costs, says the study published in medical journal The Lancet.

The Global Enteric Multicentre Study (GEMS), involving 20,000 children from across Asia and Africa, is the largest study ever conducted on diarrhoeal diseases in developing countries.

Analysing data from the study, researchers found that approximately one in five children under the age of two suffer from moderate-to-severe diarrhoea (MSD) each year, which increased children's risk of death 8.5-fold and lead to stunted growth over a two-month follow-up period.

"Without a full picture of which pathogen causes the most harm, it had been difficult to make evidence-based decisions around diarrhoeal disease control," said Dipika Sur, principal investigator, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata.

GEMS will fill in the critical gaps in knowledge about the disease and help governments to prioritise resources for research and action to reduce the burden of the disease, Sur added.

More than 100,000 children die from diarrhoea in India every year, and approximately 4,57,000- 8,84,000 are hospitalised with the disease.

Nearly 800,000 deaths are caused by diarrhoea across the world.

The findings of the study also suggest that longer-term monitoring and care of children with diarrhoea could reduce mortality and developmental delays.

Across most study sites, children with moderate-to-severe diarrhoea grew significantly less in height in the two months following the diarrhoeal episode.

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The World Health Organization has had a busy couple of weeks keeping track of three deadly strains across the world, and world travelers have probably been equally overcome with fear. And while the public-health group has been realistic in combatting a worldwide freakout at least it's been a bit more proactive than local governments in check-ups on novel coronavirus, Chinese bird flu, and now wild polio in Africa the WHO did confirm over the weekend that the SARS cousin, NCoV, can spread between humans in the same room. If you're already afraid of humans in the same room as you, here's how to responsibly freak out on the viral news before it goes viral in the wrong way.

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Because if you haven't been to any of those four countries of late, none of the three viruses have escaped them. The new bird flu, H7N9, has spread across the provinces of China. The newest cases of NCoV were found in France after a traveler came from Dubai the United Arab Emirates still don't face a threat, but a large number of cases of the disease stem from Saudi Arabia. Oh, yeah, and the WHO issued an alert on Saturday that "wild poliovirus" was found in Somalia preliminarily, but still: a confirmation that it was spreading "would constitute a serious national and international risk to public health." But even for the far-flung, there's this....

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If you have been to China, you should only freak out if... you like to hang out with people who hang out with Chinese poultry farmers.

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Because if it was the pig-bat in Contagion, it's the chicken in China.Though there have been reported cases of bird flu in Chinese people who were not exposed to poultry, WHO and Chinese health officials continue to stress that there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission of H7N9. So: Most of the people who got the disease were exposed to poultry, and most of the people who got it who weren't exposed to poultry were exposed to other infected people, like family members, for too long but there's not enough evidence that, you know, you'll be getting the bird flu by touching the same subway strap in Shanghai on your business trip.

In fact, Shanghai put a halt to its emergency response to H7N9 over the weekend, Forbes's Russell Flannery reported.The city "will end its emergency response measures following theabsence of new cases in the past 20 days," Flannery reports, gleaning information from local reports throughout the region. See that? No new cases in 20 days. Take a chill pill.

As Business Insider's Jennifer Welsh reports, fever is one of the symptoms of bird flu along withpneumonia and respiratory failure. But the people who have died from H7N9, or are suffering from it, tend to be older people with weaker immune systems. "What we're seeing is that half the serious cases are above 60 years of age," Benjamin Cowling,associate professor at HKU's public health research center, told CNN.

What's more,China's Global Times reported on Monday that a 31-year-old in Taiwan made a full recovery. More good news for the young and previously healthy: another recovery story includes a 4-year-old boy."To date, a total of 131 laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus including 32 deaths have been reported to WHO," reads the latest update from the WHO, meaning the majority of people infected have recovered. Which is a good thing!

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