Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Deadly 'nose bleed' disease which kills up to a third of patients reaches Europe
dailyrecord.co.ukA man has been hospitalised after catching a deadly fever with grim symptoms such as bleeding from the eyes.Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a rare but unpleasant disease not native to the UK or Europe with mortality rates at around 30% The middle-aged man was initially treated in a hospital in the Castile and Leon region of Spain, before being airlifted elsewhere.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), death occurs within two weeks of the illness with a range of symptoms known to include bleeding from the eyes, stomach pain, headache and vomiting.
A patient may also experience joint pain, jaundice, mood swings and red eyes in the early phases. As the virus progresses, symptoms can worsen to encompass "large areas of severe bruising" and "severe nosebleeds".
In 2012, a man died in Scotland from Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever after returning to the UK from Afghanistan. At the time, it was the first laboratory-confirmed case of CCHF in the UK, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).The 38-year-old was diagnosed with the deadly disease when he flew into Glasgow Airport on a connecting flight from Dubai.
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