Tick-borne encephalitis: what is it?
encephalitis – a natural focal (specific only for specific territories), a viral disease that affects the Central nervous system.
ticks are carriers of this disease, encephalitis virus is transmitted to humans directly by the bite of a sick tick. Also, this infection affects monkeys, cattle, rodents and some birds.
most risk surveyors, workers of geological prospecting parties and the timber industry, builders of railway and automobile roads, gas pipelines and power lines, tourists and hunters. The last time encephalitis is very often sick citizens who were infected in the garden (garden) areas and in suburban forests.
Next, we'll look at the main causes, symptoms and methods of prevention (including vaccination) of the disease. By the way, you can read on the website www.uaua.info.
Causes
As already mentioned vectors of encephalitis, ixodic ticks. People can get infected when rubbing and crushing the stuck tick, and if he drank infected raw cow's or goat's milk.
If a person was infected by milk, then initially, the virus enters the ego-tant organs and cause the 1st wave of fever, and after reaching the CNS - 2nd wave of fever.
If a person is infected through a tick bite, develops a different form of the disease, which is characterized by only 1 to wave fever.
Symptoms
acute Disease develops 10 to 21 days immediately after the bite. The virus of encephalitis affects the peripheral nerves, motor neurons of the spinal cord and gray matter of the brain, causing a person has seizures, there are disturbance of skin sensation and paralysis of certain groups of muscles or of whole limbs.
a Little later, after the inflammation covers the whole brain, a person appear: vomiting, severe headaches, loss of consciousness (even coma) or, by contrast, develops agitation loss of orientation in space and time.
After some time, you may experience arrhythmia, myocarditis, cardiovascular insufficiency, enlargement of the spleen and liver, constipation. In addition to around the body temperature rises to 39 - 40 0 C
thePrevention
the Most reliable protection against this disease is your own antibodies produced by the body in response to the vaccine, which traditionally do in the fall and winter periods. However today there are foreign vaccines for rapid prevention of encephalitis. Such vaccinations at 91 - 97% guarantee that the person is not sick with encephalitis (by the way, 3% of the population in response to vaccination protective antibodies are not produced).
the 2nd factor of protection against this disease is proper behavior in the forest. So, going into the woods or forest it is best to wear clothing that covers your entire body and a hat, as well as to spray clothes with repellent that repels ticks. Walking in the area, stay out of the thicket - hold on better paths. While returning from a walk home, undress and ask someone from the family to examine you from head to toe.
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Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
