Chikungunya Or Flu Bones - Also Spread By Mosquitoes Aedes aegypti
Chikungunya. The name of this disease sounds funny and strange to the ears of Indonesia. Chikungunya comes from the Swahili language (nations and cultures on the coast of East Africa) based on symptoms that occur in patients, which means (body position) winding or curved (that the which contorts or bends up), refers to people with a bent posture due to joint pain great (arthralgia). Joint pain, according to safety data sheets (MSDS) Office of Laboratory Security Canada, mainly in the knees, ankles and joints of the hands and feet.
Chikungunya fever in Indonesia was first reported in Samarinda in 1973 [1], then an outbreak in Kuala Tungkal, Martapura, Ternate, New York (1983), Muara Enim (1999), Aceh and Bogor (2001). An outbreak of Chikungunya found in Port Klang in Malaysia in 1999, then progressed to other areas. Early 2001, outbreaks of Chikungunya fever occurred in Muara Enim, South Sumatra and Aceh. Bogor followed in October. A year later, another outbreak of Chikungunya fever in Jakarta (West Java), Purworejo and Klaten (Central Java). During the year 2001-2003 is estimated that the number of Chikungunya cases reached 3918 souls and no deaths attributable to this disease.
Causes of ChikungunyaChikungunya infection caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which is kind of Alphavirus belonging to the Togaviridae family and transmitted or transmitted through the bite of Aedes mosquitoes aegypty, the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever.
Symptoms of Chikungunya patientsThe main symptoms of Chikungunya disease is the body suddenly felt a fever accompanied by pains in the joints. In fact, because one typical symptom is the emergence of a sense of fatigue, pain, pain may also arise in tulangtulang, there are named as bone fever or flu bone. The symptoms are similar to dengue virus infection with a bit of difference on certain things
The incubation period of Chikungunya fever two to four days. Manifestations of the disease lasts from three to 10 days. These viruses include a self-limiting disease disappear on its own alias. However, the pain still remains a matter of weeks to months.Chikungunya can affect all ages, both children and adults in endemic areas. The patient will experience sudden high fever for five days, so the term is also known as fever five days.
In young children begins with sudden onset of fever, skin redness. Red rash appears after 3-5 days. Red eyes are usually accompanied by flu-like signs. Febrile seizures are common child. In the older children, fever is usually followed by pain in muscles and joints, as well as lymph node enlargement. In adults, symptoms of aching joints and muscles are very dominant and to cause temporary paralysis due to pain when walking. Sometimes arise nausea to vomiting. In general, fever in children only lasted for three days with no or very little bleeding and shock encountered. The difference with dengue fever, Chikungunya in no severe bleeding, shock (shock) and death.
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