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.
Glastonbury: 3 grim diseases you can catch from festival toilets thanks to flying poo
dailystar.co.ukGlastonbury Festival getting underway this week, music fans will be facing the reality of having their home comforts taken away for the sake of a weekend of partying in mud.One of the biggest comforts many will be missing is a decent toilet.As if using festival bogs isn't grim enough, knowing you could potentially catch a number of diseases will surely turn the stomach.Festival toilets could be described as a cesspit of diseases, and as the days go on their revolting nature and the risk increases.
So what diseases you could possibly pick up from portaloos and how could you reduce your risk?Salmonella is a bacterial disease that affects the intestines, causing a range of symptoms from nausea to fever to bloody poo.
Salmonella is usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal faeces (poo) and is contagious.Unfortunately, if a single person at the festival has a case of salmonella, there is a high likelihood of a spread.One study found that salmonella “persisted in one toilet for four weeks after the diarrhoea had stopped, despite the use of cleaning fluids”.It just proves how the disease lurks even after cleaning.Norovirus is highly contagious, and the infection can cause diarrhoea and vomiting.
Norovirus is similar to salmonella in that it spreads when you eat food contaminated with faecal matter.Symptoms include runny nose, cough, conjunctivitis, fever and Koplik Spots - a type of raised ulcer - inside the cheeks.A rash usually develops a few days after first symptoms.It can appear as flat red or brown blotches beginning on the face and neck and spreading over the body.According to Public Health England, tips to reduce norovirus at festivals include:Shigella infection, or shigellosis, happens when.
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