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Slovenia reports 169 cases of Hanta Virus this year
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Tuesday, 8/21/2012
Text: Tatjana Pihlar
LJUBLJANA - An epidemic fever or murine hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HMRS) as a result of this vast number of rodents, especially mice, at the end of July fortunately subsided. Since the beginning of the year yesterday in the laboratory for the diagnosis of zoonoses at the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine dangerous disease confirmed in 169 patients.
The record so far in 2008, there were 45 patients, only in June this year, 54 people fell ill and July 33, this month on the week list the average of five to eight new patients. "Probably will be another wave of autumn, but with a smaller number of sufferers than in the spring and early summer," provides expert Dr. viruses. Tatjana Avšič - Zupanc, the head of the laboratory for the diagnosis of zoonoses, ie diseases from animals to humans.
We already reported that the murine fever epidemic broke out because the rodents outnumber strong this year, and this was due to the abundance of beech IRA last fall, which is their main food, and the relatively mild winter, which enabled them to they reproduce all year round.
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Most infections in farm work
Carriers of the so-called hantavirusov, causing chills mouse, as forest and field mice and voles forest. Infected animals excreted virus in saliva, urine and faeces, but a man can be infected by inhalation of aerosols, in which the Hantavirus. Since this year is very large populations of rodents, lack of food, so it all summer forcing in the basement, garage, ... where looking for food. And when you bite it poslinijo with saliva and, if infected, shed virus. Excrete it in the urine and the faeces, in which the virus remains considerable time. People come into contact with the virus when cleaning rooms or eat the crops on which the secretions of infected animals, in a recent interview Diaries explains Dr. lens. Tatjana Avšič - Županc.
Mouse fever is often associated with work in the garden, the field, with camping, swimming baths in the wild ... The disease is distinguished by high fever, chills, headache and severe sharp pain in the lumbar region and abdomen. In the slow progress may lead to bleeding in the skin and mucous membranes, kidney failure, infection can also die. This year, fatalities in Slovenia fortunately not yet in the past they have counted twelve. The Institute of Public Health in the case of this year's ill done an analysis of how they have been infected, and preliminary data indicate that most of the work on the farm, less frequently, at camp, at work in the woods during hunting, working with wood ... Most infections in Styria, in central Slovenia and Carinthia, about two-thirds of sufferers are in their surroundings opažalo rodents, especially mice.
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machinetranslation
Tuesday, 8/21/2012
Text: Tatjana Pihlar
LJUBLJANA - An epidemic fever or murine hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HMRS) as a result of this vast number of rodents, especially mice, at the end of July fortunately subsided. Since the beginning of the year yesterday in the laboratory for the diagnosis of zoonoses at the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine dangerous disease confirmed in 169 patients.
The record so far in 2008, there were 45 patients, only in June this year, 54 people fell ill and July 33, this month on the week list the average of five to eight new patients. "Probably will be another wave of autumn, but with a smaller number of sufferers than in the spring and early summer," provides expert Dr. viruses. Tatjana Avšič - Zupanc, the head of the laboratory for the diagnosis of zoonoses, ie diseases from animals to humans.
We already reported that the murine fever epidemic broke out because the rodents outnumber strong this year, and this was due to the abundance of beech IRA last fall, which is their main food, and the relatively mild winter, which enabled them to they reproduce all year round.
link to graph
Most infections in farm work
Carriers of the so-called hantavirusov, causing chills mouse, as forest and field mice and voles forest. Infected animals excreted virus in saliva, urine and faeces, but a man can be infected by inhalation of aerosols, in which the Hantavirus. Since this year is very large populations of rodents, lack of food, so it all summer forcing in the basement, garage, ... where looking for food. And when you bite it poslinijo with saliva and, if infected, shed virus. Excrete it in the urine and the faeces, in which the virus remains considerable time. People come into contact with the virus when cleaning rooms or eat the crops on which the secretions of infected animals, in a recent interview Diaries explains Dr. lens. Tatjana Avšič - Županc.
Mouse fever is often associated with work in the garden, the field, with camping, swimming baths in the wild ... The disease is distinguished by high fever, chills, headache and severe sharp pain in the lumbar region and abdomen. In the slow progress may lead to bleeding in the skin and mucous membranes, kidney failure, infection can also die. This year, fatalities in Slovenia fortunately not yet in the past they have counted twelve. The Institute of Public Health in the case of this year's ill done an analysis of how they have been infected, and preliminary data indicate that most of the work on the farm, less frequently, at camp, at work in the woods during hunting, working with wood ... Most infections in Styria, in central Slovenia and Carinthia, about two-thirds of sufferers are in their surroundings opažalo rodents, especially mice.
More: Novice Denevnik