Situation Avian influenza (AI) in Indonesia and public participation in the handling

Until now, bird flu (Avian influenza) are still consuming a lot of attention of the world. Although other diseases such as dengue, tuberculosis, malaria and diarrhea have morbidity and mortality rates are much greater than bird flu, but they are not potentially cause a pandemic. Bird flu pandemic could cause negative impact of extraordinary social, economic and human security. It is estimated that a bird flu pandemic would result in economic losses reached U.S. $ 800 billion and caused the death of 50-160 million people worldwide. However, it is difficult to predict the emergence of bird flu pandemic as the difficulty of estimating the occurrence of earthquakes.

There are 3 of pandemic flu is a world epidemic, the Spanish Flu (1918), caused by H1N1 virus and caused 40 million deaths; Asian Flu (1957), caused by H2N2 virus and caused 4 million deaths; Hong Kong Flu (1968), caused by H3N2 virus and causing 1 million deaths. WHO (2005) states that the bird flu pandemic is different from the flu. Bird flu pandemic may occur in all countries in the world with the spread of patients and deaths and the spread of extensive drug supply is not evenly distributed. This can be a bad influence on economic and social development.

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Rabies (mad dog)

DEFINITIONS

Rabies is a viral infection of the brain that causes irritation and inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.

CAUSE

The rabies virus (Lysa virus).

The rabies virus is found in the saliva of infected animals. This memularkan animal infections to other animals or humans through the bite and sometimes through a lick. The virus will move from its entry through the nerves to the spinal cord and brain, where they multiply. Furthermore the virus will move back through the nerves to the salivary glands and into the saliva.

Many animals can transmit rabies to humans. Most often a source of rabies are dogs, other animals can also be a source of rabies infection is a cat, bats, raccoons, skunks, foxes.

Rabies in dogs is often found in Latin America, Africa and Asia, because not all pets get a vaccination for this disease. Infected animals can have rabies or rabies tame wild.

In the wild rabies, an infected animal was restless and violent, then became paralyzed and died. In rabies benign, since the beginning has been a local paralysis or total paralysis.

Although very, very rare, rabies can be transmitted through inhalation of contaminated air. 2 cases have been reported to occur in the air explorers in cave where many bats.

SYMPTOMS

Symptoms usually begin to occur within 30-50 days after infection, but the incubation period varies from 10 days to more than 1 year.

The incubation period is usually the shortest on the person who was bitten on the head or a closed place of shorts or when the bite is in many places.

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