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Careless attitude: Congo, dengue conflict feared after Eid break
- Updated: September 12, 2016
Authorities are unknowingly of regulating mist for murdering ticks. PHOTO: INP
ISLAMABAD: The deadliness rate from Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Pakistan is alarmingly high during 70% since of a miss of recognition among a open as good as professionals, according to health experts.
So distant 17 people have depressed plant to a deadly Congo virus. Of them 10 died in Quetta, 6 in Karachi and one in Rawalpindi.
“Congo heat is autochthonous in Pakistan and out of each 10 reported cases during slightest 7 are dying,” a comparison matrix control consultant during Lahore’s Contech School of Public Health, Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Rana tells The Express Tribune. “Even a authorities endangered are unknowingly of a use of mist for murdering ticks and place where they should take a animal for disinfection,” he said.
It is unhappy to see that they are doing thermal fogging for murdering ticks that is wrong, he said.
“There is a need to do cold fogging for murdering ticks while holding them into an removed area and keep them there for some time,” pronounced Prof Rana.
He pronounced thermal fogging usually kills mosquitoes, yet not ticks. “Ticks when breathe thermal mist they tumble comatose and after someday turn active again,” he said.
Only suitable spraying technique should be employed – both for cattle and on a ground, where ticks are approaching to tumble after a piece of spray. This will keep animals divided from nonessential allergies and safeguard rejecting of ticks anticipating an shun in cracks and crevices. It would also make certain that drug insurgency among a ticks stays during a minimum.
He suggested that there should be some arrangement for a proxy quarantine to discharge ticks by integrated matrix government technique.
Only after a rejecting of ticks, animals should be authorised to enter in a marketplace for sale. The quarantine area should also be sprayed to discharge strew ticks. Handler contingency observe all surety measures to equivocate parasite bites.
Awareness among a masses per risk factors is equally critical and should be an constituent partial of a CCHF management, he said.
Dengue fever
Health experts have warned of intensity hazard of an conflict of dengue if precautionary measures are not taken during Eid holidays.
An central from a Punjab health department, who wished not to be named, pronounced people travelling from cities like Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi from where dengue cases are being reported should take additional surety measures.
“A dengue certain chairman travelling to another place poses a hazard of a spread,” he said.
After satirical a dengue certain patient, a butterfly becomes dengue certain and bites many people in a circuitously areas, he pronounced and combined that yet so distant dengue heat is underneath control; however, a slight trouble might be harmful.
He suggested that there is a need to use butterfly repellents and nets during this season.
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 13th, 2016.