Chikungunya in South Sumatra

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Source: http://www.mediaindonesia.com/read/...ikungunya_Serang_Tiga_Kecamatan_di_Musi_Rawas

Saturday, August 22, 2009
MUSI RAWAS - MI: Dozens of residents in three districts Musi Rawas, South Sumatra Province (South Sumatra), the District Tuah Negeri, Nibung, and Suka Karya Chikungunya disease.

"Chingkungunya disease that infects 25 people BELITI Water Village, Sub Tuah Negeri. The banpres village, Suka Karya District found 15 people," said Head of Section surveillance, Endemism, Immunizations, and Public Health Department of Health, Musi Rawas, Nasrul Banyumi, Saturday ( 22 / 8). Then in the village of Suka Mulya also found infected by as many as 12 people and nine people in the village of Sakti Darma, District Nibung.

Local health office, after discovery of the disease since August 20 last, has record number of patients, conduct blood sampling and fumigation (fogging). Chikungunya disease is also endemic in the District Property Source. However, only a small number of sufferers, but remains a concern and surveillance officers.

He added that the cause of this disease is a type of Alphavirus virus or Chikungunya virus is transmitted mosquito Aedes aegypti. The same mosquitoes transmit the disease dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). However, this disease does not cause death.

Chikungunya disease symptoms are sudden fever and body pains in the joints. In fact, one characteristic symptom is the emergence of a sense of aches, soreness, also arise in the bone pain. The symptoms are similar to dengue virus infection with a slight difference in certain things. This disease, he said, attacking all ages, both children and adults in endemic areas. (Ant/OL-04)

 

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Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/12/31/thousands-contract-chikungunya-lampung.html


Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:19 AM

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Thousands contract chikungunya in Lampung

Oyos Saroso H.N. , The Jakarta Post , Bandarlampung | Thu, 12/31/2009 9:23 AM | The Archipelago

Over 12,000 people in Lampung have reportedly contracted the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease since mid December, the highest recorded number in the last ten years, says the provincial Health Agency.

Although the disease is not deadly, many victims have been forced to stay in bed for a week due to joint pains they said made them feel like they were paralyzed.

?I had to drop my New Year celebration plans thanks to the illness,? Rohadi, 46, of West Tanjungkarang, Bandarlampung, said on Wednesday.

He said that he and his children had gone to a local community health center (Puskesmas) to seek medical treatment, but were still yet to recover from the disease.

Most of the chikungunya sufferers in the province are being treated at home or at the nearest Puskesmas.

So far, Tulangbawang and Mesuji have been reported as the worst-hit regencies in the province, where the disease has affected between 3,000 and 4,000 people in both regions consecutively.

Mesuji is a former transmigration area and the majority of its population comes from Java and Bali, where numerous swamps are left abandoned.

?None of the sufferers in Mesuji are receiving medical treatment at hospital.

?Most of them don?t consider the disease deadly although it tortures them with pain and decreases their ability to work,? said the head of the regency health agency, Anindito.

He added that most of the sufferers had complained of joint and bone pains. Yet, he assured the disease would not paralyze them.

?They will recover by themselves in five to seven days,? Anindito said.

Meanwhile in West Lampung, the regency health agency reported that 930 people were suffering from chikungunya, most of whom lived near or inside the forest.

They are spread across 10 subdistricts in the Bengkunat-Belimbing district, with Penyandingan the worst-hit subdistrict.

The chikungunya virus is contracted through the bite of the aedes aegypti mosquito.

Once infected, victims develop a high fever, reddish spots, joint pains, vomiting, flu symptoms and headaches.

Some call the disease the bone flu in reference to its specific symptoms.

Head of the Lampung Health Agency Reliyani said her office was inventing the number of sufferers across the province and would use the data to help rid the province of the disease.

?Fogging is not the best answer to dealing with the disease.

?A healthy lifestyle and 3M plus practises are a better alternative,? said Reliyani, referring to the abbreviated term of periodically cleaning water containers as a preventive measure.

 

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Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/16/chikungunya-outbreak-continues-lampung.html

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:37 PM
Chikungunya outbreak continues in Lampung

The Jakarta Post | Tue, 02/16/2010 2:03 PM

At least 420 people in Sidomulyo, South Lampung regency, have been infected with the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease since early in the month, prompting local health authorities to declare the outbreak an emergency.

A top official at the local health agency, Kristi Endrawati, told Antara news agency in Kalianda on Tuesday that the disease had spread from one village to another within a relatively short time.

She said the aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the chikungunya virus and spreads it to humans through its bite, was rapidly reproducing in cacao plantation areas in the regency.

?The cacao pod can hold water and become a mosquito nest which contributes to the spread of the aedes aegypti mosquito. It is impossible to fog all the plantations since they are too big and it is not effective. We only fog residential areas," she said.

Once infected with chikungunya, victims develop a high fever, reddish spots, joint pain, vomiting, flu symptoms and headaches.

Officials from the agency have campaigned to ask local people to cover all water catchments and clean all ponds periodically to reduce the number of mosquitoes in the area especially during the rainy season.

Earlier this year, over 12,000 people in Lampung were recorded to have contracted the disease, the highest recorded number in the last ten years.