13 minutes agoMalaysia, Kosovo situation under control
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The National Institute of Public Health reports that two malaria cases have been recorded in our country this year, which have been imported by our citizens who remain in the states of Africa for the time being, while the epidemiological situation is under full control. A media communiqué reportedly during the permanent surveillance of [...]
A media communiqué says that during the permanent monitoring of infectious diseases in Kosovo, through the monitoring system of the epidemiology situation and the collection of cases for the post-war period in Kosovo, there have been a total of seven cases of malaria, of which two new cases of malaria disease this year.
malaria is an infectious, communicative, transmissive disease, which can be acute or chronic for clinical decurage. malaria has wide latitudes with concentrations in tropical, subtropical, and mild climates.
After the mosquito bite, it must be between 7 and 14 days to show signs of human illness. The disease appears with a strong, trembling fever, which covers a person from time to time usually in the evening. Then there's a 39-40oC high temperature, sweat, red face, pain, vomit, headaches and pulse speed.
In children, the disease can be accompanied by high temperatures. The patient who is not treated in time may carry the disease with his own blood for up to three years. The disease is carried through blood infected with transfusion.
The disease is treated with drugs that destroy malaria parasites in the blood of a sick person.
malaria is most often shown in late spring, summer and autumn. To protect yourself from malaria, mosquitoes carry the disease must be fought.
All people who live in mosquito countries or travel to tropical countries must use repelents to prevent mosquito bites. The nets must also be applied around the bed of sleep in the mosquito areas and cannot be protected otherwise.
Antimal treatment should start as soon as the disease is diagnosed that no effective vaccine has yet been detected.
The IKSHP recommends that citizens travelling to the surrounding areas stick to international recommendations for taking precautions with the taking of antimalatics and, however, prior to the trip consult with epidemiologists of the National Institute.
Foreign citizens originating from the wandering malarian areas who come to Kosovo must testify that they are not infected with malaria disease and that for any clinical sign to be presented to the National Institute for Diagnostion and infected for treatment.
National Institute labs are prepared and ready to diagnose all suspicious cases in malaria, the IKSHP communiqué concludes.
