Indonesia: Rove Beetles causing skin irritations

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Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/nvir...urabaya-sets-off-itchy-rash-of-insects/506160

Development In Surabaya Sets Off Itchy Rash of Insects
Dessy Sagita, Amir Tejo & Vento Saudale | March 21, 2012

Health officials are calling for calm following an outbreak of skin rashes and irritations across Surabaya linked to bugs driven out of their natural habitats by property developers.

The local agriculture agency said on Tuesday that 12 of the city?s 31 districts had reported cases of skin irritations resulting from fluid secretions from the rove beetle, known locally as the tomcat bug...

...Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the Health Ministry?s director general for disease control and environmental health, said the beetles did not bite, but rather secreted a poisonous fluid.

?If you find one of these insects, don?t crush it because then the poison could come into contact with your skin,? he said...

...The fluid it excretes contains paederin, which can cause dermatitis or blisters 24 to 48 hours after contact with the skin.

?The blisters can be infectious through towels, clothes or other things that come in contact with the paederin,? Tjandra said.

He added at least 48 residents had so far sought treatment at local clinics for skin irritation caused by the rove beetle...

 

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Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/yogyakarta-sidoarjo-report-rove-beetle-attacks/506272

Yogyakarta, Sidoarjo Report Rove Beetle Attacks
March 21, 2012

Yogyakarta and the East Java town of Sidoarjo have reported rove beetle attacks, following news of an outbreak of skin rashes and irritations in Surabaya caused by the insects locally referred to as ?tomcats...?

 

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Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/...firms-prior-rove-beetle-outbreaks-bekasi.html

Health official confirms prior rove beetle outbreaks in Bekasi
Arya Dipa, The Jakarta Post, Bandung | Wed, 03/21/2012 2:19 PM
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Following a rove beetle outbreak in Surabaya, East Java, the top health official says there were also recent outbreaks in Bekasi regency.

"We received two reports in Bekasi last year,? West Java Health Agency head Alma Luchyati said on Wednesday said in Bandung, West Java, adding that the outbreaks were the only ones recorded in the province in the last five years...

 

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Source: http://www.beritasatu.com/kesehatan/38769-tomcat-dicurigai-serang-warga-garut.html

Tomcat Dicurigai Serang Warga Garut
Minggu, 25 Maret 2012 | 00:05

Google translation:

Residents Attack Suspect Tomcat Garut
Sunday, March 25, 2012 | 00:05


Tomcat insects also known as Rove beetles attack a number of residents in the two Village, Village Mulyajaya, District Banjarwangi, Garut regency, West Java.

"The pain and itching of the skin due to insect bites people felt that he like Tomcat," said Supardin, of Kampung Rinyem, Saturday (24/3).

He explained that people who suffer from insect bites such as 17 people. Ten were from Kampung Rinyem, and seven people from Kampung Pasuketan.

Similar types of insects such as Tomcat, said Supardin, began to attack residents in two villages since last week.

"The people believe itch and pain are affected by the insect's skin. Moreover, said the doctor, the wound characteristics and itching suffered by residents as a skin disease caused by Tomcat," he said.

Meanwhile, Head of Communicable Disease Control (P2M) Garut District Health Office, Dede Rohmansyah, said it was investigating the reports related to people who experience a skin disease caused by insect bites types of Tomcat.

Health Department, said Dede, has been coordinating with the Department of Food Crops and Horticulture (TPH) Garut, to reveal whether the insect is attacking citizens Tomcat or not.

Residents who suffer from skin diseases, said Dede, had received treatment at Community Health Centre (PHC) Banjarwangi.

"The number of residents who are victims of an insect bite is not known the whole. But clearly the victim has been getting treatment at the health center," he said.
Author: Reuters / Ririn Indriani

 

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Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/indonesian-officials-brace-for-tomcat-outbreak/507543

Indonesian Officials Brace for ?Tomcat? Outbreak
March 27, 2012

The Health Ministry has ordered all community health centers to be on standby to treat a potential outbreak of skin rashes caused by contact with the rove beetle, as reports of bug attacks begin coming in from outside Java.

Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the ministry?s director general for environmental health and disease control, said on Monday that his office was closely monitoring reports of attacks by the beetles, known locally as tomcat bugs, and coordinating prevention and treatment efforts with provincial, district and municipal health officials...

 

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Bogor Subdistricts Start to Feel Pain of Tomcat Beetle Attacks
Vento Saudale & Antara | March 27, 2012

Bogor. Poisonous tomcat beetles have not only spread to a second subdistrict in Bogor, with three other victims reported in a village in Rumpin, but they have been reported in other districts on Java.

In Bogor, the tomcat beetle was found in Dramaga subdistrict, where it stung one person, and on Monday three victims of the poisonous insect were reported in Kampung Sawah village in Rumpin subdistrict.

Adam Glorawan, 6, from Kampung Sawah was first diagnosed as suffering from herpes because he had blisters, but he did not suffer from the symptomatic fever. The tomcat beetle, whose poison causes serious skin irritations that can later develop into blisters, also affected a 17-year-old uncle of Adam and a 28-year-old neighbor.

Bogor district health office chief Tri Wahyu Harini said that officials were not checking the reports...

 

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Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/tomcat-beetles-run-riot-in-indonesia/508075

?Tomcat? Beetles Run Riot in Indonesia
Zakir Hussain - Straits Times | March 30, 2012

Insects are an inescapable part of life in Indonesia, but a recent infestation of one species has got many people itching and irritated. The latest scourge is tomcats, or rove beetles, which are being dislodged from their habitats near areas making way for development.

Many people have suffered acute dermatitis and swelling to the skin after coming into contact with the insects.

The rising number of such cases has led the Health Ministry to put public health centres across Java, the country?s most heavily populated island, on alert this week. By yesterday, reports had emerged of tomcat attacks in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

Quarantine officials at ports and airports in high-risk areas have been ordered to carry out fumigation to prevent an outbreak, Professor Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the ministry?s director-general for disease control and environmental health, said on Monday...

 

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Tomcat Beetles Creep Into the Capital, Officials Tell Health Centers to Prepare
Ronna Nirmala | March 31, 2012

Jakarta residents have started to report sightings of rove beetles, known locally as tomcat bugs, in their homes and office buildings, an official said on Friday.

Ipih Ruyani, head of the city?s fisheries and agriculture office, said there had been tomcat sightings around the capital.

Reports came from an office building on Jalan Warung Buncit in South Jakarta; in Pulo Gadung subdistrict, East Jakarta; at the South Korean Embassy; at a building on Jalan Imam Bonjol in Central Jakarta; and in an empty lot in West Jakarta.

?But after checking in the field, we found only one bug identified as tomcat,? he said. The beetle was discovered at the office on Jalan Warung Buncit...