South Kalimantan: Chikungunya cases

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Source: http://www.mediaindonesia.com/read/2010/01/01/115409/127/101/Ratusan_Warga_Terserang_Chikungunya

Having Hundreds of Chikungunya
Rabu, 06 Januari 2010 03:49 WIB

MARTAPURA-MI: Hundreds of residents Banjar District, South Kalimantan, attacked Chikungunya, and the disease continues to spread in the four districts.

"Chikungunya patients who successfully recorded from December 2009 until the beginning of the first week in January 2010 as many as 335 people, and most productive person is aged between 20-45 years old," said Chief of Health in Banjar Rifaniansyah Martapura Gusti, Tuesday (5 / 1).

He said hundreds of people who became ill from a virus that spread in four districts, namely Pengaron, Karang Intan, Mataraman, and District Simpang Empat.

According to him, the district's most lots Pengaron sufferers. "Dozens of residents in four villages in this district have tested positive for Chikungunya," he said.

Four village is Castle Village, New Holes, Lok Tunggul, and Mengkaok Village. "According to the data in Puskesmas Pengaron, the number of patients in most local districts are Tunggul Lok Village residents, which is as many as 30 people," he said.

In District Karang Intan, most Biih sufferers in the village of 135 people that is counted, then residents in the village of Sungai Jati Mataraman District, and the Village of Mount Ulin and New Village in District Simpang Empat sufferers dozens of people.

"Probably the number of patients in each village and district exceeds the number who recorded it, because many people either do not report to a health clinic, doctor or hospital," he said.

Moreover, according to him, the disease can be cured by itself, so the number of patients are not fully recorded.

According to Rifaniansyah, with an outbreak of Chikungunya in the four districts that make a range of Public Health to survey the patient, and alert health workers in health centers and other health implementation units.

In addition, also distributed abate powder to prevent the proliferation of mosquito larvae, and perform fumigation (fogging) against mosquito nests. If necessary, he said, would be built in the post health care
Chikungunya endemic areas.

"Preventive steps that can be done is to promote the movement of citizens of the eradication of mosquitoes nest (PSN), drained, closed, and store (3M) secondhand goods that could be a nest of mosquitoes, and can use mosquito repellent herbs," he said. (Ant/OL-7)

 

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Source: http://cetak.kompas.com/read/xml/2010/01/07/02575343/3.098.warga.kalsel.terserang.chikungunya

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Spreading DISEASE
Having Kalsel 3098 Chikungunya Residents

Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 02:57 pm

Banjarmasin, Kompas - During December and early January 2010, about 3098 people Chikungunya disease in South Kalimantan. The worst attack occurred in Banjar District, which is as many as 1622 people so declared status Extraordinary events.

"Although there is no citizen who died from this disease, the status of outbreaks should set for increased vigilance by all parties," said Chief Public Health South Kalimantan Rosehan Adani, who was contacted in Banjarmasin, Wednesday (6 / 1).

Of the 13 districts / cities in South Kalimantan, he said, only two regions that did not happen Chikungunya attack, namely Kota Banjarmasin and Barito Kuala.

The number and the highest jump in cases of Chikungunya in Banjar district. In this district in December 2009 recorded 335 cases, but in early January had increased to 1622 cases.

Citizens of this disease are generally located in the productive age of 20-45 years. However, the disease spread by Aedes mosquitoes Aedes albopictus and aegyti can strike all age groups, both children and adults.

Patients who Chikungunya disease generally experience a high fever for days. In adults, the patient usually feels pain in the joints and muscles, and some have felt the paralysis. Some patients also complain sometimes feel nauseous and vomiting.

Rosehan said that if attacked the children, generally suffering high fever and red eyes, followed by reddish skin for 3-5 days. In certain cases, there was enlargement of the gland in children.

"To reduce the Chikungunya disease, we continue to do fogging in some areas," said Rosehan...

 

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Source: http://www.antara.co.id/en/news/1265693577/chikungunya-attacks-4-500-in-s-kalimantan

Chikungunya attacks 4,500 in S Kalimantan
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 12:32 WIB

Martapura, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - Chikungunya caused by the Alphavirus virus and spread by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, has infected thousands of people in South Kalimantan.

The number of Chikungunya affected people in Banjar regency alone had reached 4,500 people in the past 40 days, Head of the Banjar Disease Prevention Agency Endah Labati said here Tuesday.

"The number of patients from early January to the first week of February has reached 4,500, and is expected to rise in this rainy season," she said.

During the rainy season, Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes were easily breeding, Labati said.
The Chikungunya-infected people were located in at least 67 villages in 11 suburbs.

The areas commonly hit by the virus were surrounded by forests, she said.
In preventing the spread of the virus, local health officers had conducted fogging of high-risk villages and suburbs.

Residents were also asked to keep their neighborhood clean by frequently throwing, closing, or buyring rain water-preserving goods so that the mosquitoes could not breed inside them.

"The fogging will only kill adult mosquitoes while the larvae remain alive in the water. Therefore removing, closing, or burying the water-holding goods are also important," she said.

During the rainy season, South Kalimantan province is vulnerable to the spread of Chikungunya. On February 3, the disease also attacked a number of areas in Kotabaru.

However, unlike serious diseases, Director of the Kotabaru public hospital dr Nurahman said Chikungunya patients did not always had to be rushed to a hospital.

"Total bed rust would be sufficient, eating and drinking normally, the disease will go away by itself," he said.

He said Chikungunya normally attacked in the rainy season. "However, the disease is not fatal," he said.(*)