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Spreading awareness: ‘Prevention is a best defence’
- Updated: February 3, 2017
KARACHI: Chikungunya is not as deadly as we think, as a genocide rate of putrescent patients is reduction than 1%, pronounced Dr Bushra Jamil, highbrow and territory conduct of adult spreading diseases during Aga Khan University Hospital. We need to concentration on a prevention, she explained.
She was delivering a harangue during a open recognition convention patrician ‘The Recent Outbreak of Chikungunya in Pakistan’ on Friday during a Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD), International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi. The convention was jointly organized by PCMD and a Virtual Education Project Pakistan.
Dr Jamil pronounced that while a pathogen is not new to Pakistan, it exists with really low-level activity. The usually approach to forestall it is to forestall butterfly bites, she said, adding that impediment is improved than any cure.
Our beside country, India, faced a poignant conflict of chikungunya in 2005 and 2006, while in 2007 dozens of cases of chikungunya were reported in Pakistan, she said, adding that a pathogen has so distant influenced around 60 countries in Africa and Asia.
Talking about signs and symptoms of a disease, she pronounced that symptoms are generally self-limiting, final for dual or 3 days and seem between 4 and 7 days after a studious has been bitten by a putrescent mosquito. These symptoms embody high fever, corner pain in a reduce back, ankles, knees, wrists or phalanges, corner swelling, rash, headaches, flesh pain, revulsion and fatigue, pronounced Dr Jamil.
There are some health complications related with this illness such as eye problems, heart attacks, hepatitis, kidney problems, skin issues and bleeding, she explained.
She also combined that socioeconomic weight is also compared with this kind of disease, that affects a capability of patients even after being cured. Talking about treatment, Dr Jamil pronounced that there is no specific antiviral drug diagnosis for chikungunya and vaccines are not used as surety measures as they are not accessible on a blurb scale. What we can do is concentration on impediment and control of a disease, she said. This includes shortening a series of healthy and synthetic water-filled enclosure habitats that promote tact of mosquitoes, she said.
Ending her lecture, Dr Jamil suggested an recognition programme be instituted that can assistance people forestall such illness and learn them about expelling butterfly tact grounds.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 4th, 2017.