ELECTROCUTION IN A FOOTBALL VIEWING CENTRE IN CALABAR, SOUTH NIGERIA

Electrocution is the passage of a substantial electrical current through tissues with resultant skin lesions, organ damage, and death. Deaths from Electrocution may result from a person exposed to a lethal amount of electricity which may be due to high or low voltage. It is usually accidental in nature and homicidal electrocution is rare in Nigeria but cannot be ruled out. The maintenance of electrical installation is the poor and illegal construction of buildings such as football viewing centers, stores and an even residential apartment under high tension cables is a common occurrence. These buildings are usually marked for demolition but the occupants are adamant. We report a case of seven persons ranging in age from 13 to 65 years and comprising of a female and six male with a ratio of 1:6; who sustained various degrees of electrical burns to their upper, lower limbs, trunk resulting in death. The cause of death was sudden and determine by autopsy to be ventricular arrhythmias

HIV and HPV infections and ocular surface squamous neoplasia: systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: The frequency of ocular surface squamous neoplasias (OSSNs) has been increasing in populations with a high prevalence of infection with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). We aimed to quantify the association between HIV/AIDS and HPV infection and OSSN, through systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS: The articles providing data on the association between HIV/AIDS and/or HPV infection and OSSN were identified in MEDLINE, SCOPUS and EMBASE searched up to May 2013, and through backward citation tracking. The DerSimonian and Laird method was used to compute summary relative risk (RR) estimates and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Heterogeneity was quantified with the I(2) statistic. RESULTS: HIV/AIDS was strongly associated with an increased risk of OSSN (summary RR=8.06, 95% CI: 5.29-12.30, I(2)=56.0%, 12 studies). The summary RR estimate for the infection with mucosal HPV subtypes was 3.13 (95% CI: 1.72-5.71, I(2)=45.6%, 16 studies). Four studies addressed the association between both cutaneous and mucosal HPV subtypes and OSSN; the summary RR estimates were 3.52 (95% CI: 1.23-10.08, I(2)=21.8%) and 1.08 (95% CI: 0.57-2.05, I(2)=0.0%), respectively. CONCLUSION: Human immunodeficiency virus infection increases the risk of OSSN by nearly eight-fold. Regarding HPV infection, only the cutaneous subtypes seem to be a risk factor