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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dengue Fever is The Scourge of Society In South East Asia Specially


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What is Dengue fever?

Dengue fever is generally immune to attack people who are declining. Actually, once we are exposed to dengue fever infection, the body will produce immunity against the dengue virus type, the virus will last for a life time. Too bad, the dengue fever caused by many type of viruses, even though we are immuned to one type of virus, still we can be suffered from another type of dengue virus.

Which areas can be easily by the dengue fever?


Many have contracted dengue fever in tropic and sub-tropic areas continents, Asia is the most in the first rank number of patients who got the dengue fever yearly. This is happening because the rainfall seasons is high specially in Brazil, India and south east asia specially now the climate change. And as developing countries parts, of course the population is getting increase that hampered to narrow the areas of mosquitos in the end they are expanding too to human areas, due to the expanding population which related to urbanization from one area to another area and relating to developing progressive movements are without considering the mutual of environmental impact itself, the lack of knowledge of the standarnisation of the sanitation and hygiene and the public behaviour themselves . WHO estimates more than 500,000 of 50,000.000 cases need to be hospitalized. More than 40% of population in Asia living in endemic areas of dengue fever.

What are the symptoms of dengue fever ?


After being bitten by the dengue mosquito who is the carrier of dengue fever, the incubation will last 3 - 15 days to the sypmtom would be appeared. Then the sympthoms will be like these descriptions below :
1. the sudden high fever 2 - 7 days
2. feeling chills, pain in the head ( not pain in the a** okay - :P ), pain when moving the eye ball, back pain as the the beginning sympthoms.
3. visible spots - the red dots in the skin when checked the torniquet technique
4. liver enlargement ( hepatomegaly )
5. blood pressure decrease and cause shock
6. decrease in the number of trombocite platelets below 100.000/mm3 and increase in hematocrite blood more than 20%
7. in advanced symptoms will occuron the nose and gum bleeding
8. occurs melena ( waste water with feces in the form of mucus and blood mixed in )
9. visible spots- red dots spread in skin as form of rupture the blood vessels
10. perceived fever causes stiffness and paint in the joints

The process of Dengue Fever Transmission


The spread of dengue fever is transmitted by mosquitoes bite of Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albopictus, In the area which is one person getting infected to dengue fever will impact outbreaks remarkable cause to its surroundings.

Treatment


There is no effective medical treatment once infected. Treatment will be emphasizing in giving people who infected by giving lots of drinks which contains sugar in 24 hours daily basis from 1.5 Litres to 2 Litres. All the treatment is good for preventing only. The main stream strategy is to eradicating the Aedes mosquitos development growth due to its ability can be able to spawn in large number 50 - 100 eggs per-day per-mosquito. Can we imagine that there are millions of mosquitos development in just short time. In efforts, Indonesia is leading the South East Asia ( concurrent with Thailand, Malaysia, Phillipines and Vietnam ) in giving trial vaccination to around 2000 kids ( because mostly the victims of dengue fever are kids - red ) in 3 cities in Indonesia Bali - Jakarta and Bandung. The given of this trial vaccine already in phase three-step. The purpose by giving this vaccine to examine the extent which this vaccine could protect the body from the dengue fever. And so far, this trial vaccine is running good.

Then how to eradicating these cutties naughty mosquitos ?
Very highyly suggested that public awareness is the important role key in this case. Live in healthy scheme would help so much.

Prevention is done by avoiding mosquitos' bites at a time in the morning to afternoon time, because this funny naughty eades mosquito is active only at day time not at night time.
The most effective actions in preventing dengeu fever are :
1. Mosquito eradiction nest by doing solid waste management, throwing the dirty water and wash cleaned the water container which possible for the mosquitos to do breeding and produce, re-management and re-arrange regularly the house design area ( re-placing and re0-arrange the items' house which are potentially for mosquitos to breed ).  In another word is cleaning cleaning and cleaning and tidying the house.
2. Maintenancing of larvaes-eating fishes ( slayer fishes, fighting fishes etc ) in the water pool or water container
3. Fumigation or fogging by using fenthion and malathion and usually it is conducted by the area in charge
4. Giving abate powder ( temephos ) in places such as water reservoirs, water bowls, water containers, ponds etc
5. Taking action personally and contribute by the action to clean-up our own housing area.

Is it Looking scary this mosquito?

Aedes aegypti Mosquito