Re: General Indonesian News - 14 January 2008 +
Re: General Indonesian News - 14 January 2008 +
Leptospirosis, the illness zoonosis could attack humankind
Someone in a hot manner high, shivered, calf myalgia and the back, had a headache, conjunctivitis (conjunctivitis), nausea, vomited, diarrhoea, ikterus/yellow on skin and sklera the eyes, must be guarded against by the possibility of the Leptospirosis illness.
This illness was caused by the bacteria spirochaeta the Lepstopira genus, had the shape of the spiral.
Leptospirosis was also known by the name of the Weil illness, the illness that the first time was introduced by Adolf Weil in 1886 when he reported the acute infection with the enlargement of the spleen gland, yellow and inflamed skin of the kidney.
Further the Leptospira bacteria could be observed from the network of the person's kidney that has died in 1907.
This illness was also known by the name of the Canicola fever, the Nanukayami fever and the fever seven days.
The case of this illness usually happens in the area paska the flood, like in Jakarta and the other area some time before, the area of rice cultivation or the area with the mouse population that enough.
This was the illness zoonosis, that is the illness that attacked the animal but could spread to humankind.
Leptospirosis was the illness zoonosis that was global, was found in most worlds, most often was found in the area had a tropical climate.
In the United States according to the daily of Brunswick Canada (2002), the Leptospirosis case was reported between 100 to 200 cases every year.
This illness death rate could reach 5 percent.
Leptospira could grow and breed on the animal body, both the wild animal that lived in the forest and the livestock animal, most to the mouse and the rodent (rodensia) other.
The domesticated animal like the dog, the cat, the pig, the water buffalo, the ox or the other mammal could also be affected by this illness.
Animals that were infected by Leptospira will issue the bacteria in his urine, but these micro-organisms could be also found in the liquid amnion (the baby's liquid) the mammal and in the network of the animal.
Animal urine berpenyakit Leptospirosis available in water, food, the land and the other object could become the spread media of this animal illness in humankind.
Apart from Leptospirosis the illness zoonosis available and must be guarded against in part: Rabies, Antraks, Toksoplasmosis, Bruselosis, Q fever, Taeniasis, TBC bovine and Salmonelosis.
The Penularan Leptospirosis method did not spread directly from humankind to humankind.
The spread happened when the bacteria entered in the human body through the mouth mucous membrane, the eyes or the nose, scraped skin or food/the drink that was contaminated by animal urine that was infected by Leptospira.
After the bacteria entered the human body, increased himself especially on the kidney, the heart, the gland mammae and the cerebral membrane.
Really the incubation of these germs 4 to 19 days, in general 10 days.
This bacteria could survive in the fresh water till several months and will die with disinfectant, for example lysol.
The environment that was optimum for Leptospira was the humid atmosphere, hot around 25 Celcius levels with the acidity (the PH) approaching neutral.
The sign of the Leptospirosis Sign the first phase as being named in the beginning of this article, sometimes foundation pain, myalgia was more prominent that his sign resembled the influenza illness or Chikungunya.
The other sign could also resemble the Dengue Dengue Fever illness (DBD),....
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