Komarov is considered annoying, but innocuous insects. However, the list of infections transmitted by bloodsuckers is expanding every year. Scientists find out: the bite of this insect can cause a mosquito encephalitis, which in everyday life is often called mosquito influenza. Do we face a spring-summer epidemic?
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As arose?
If human symptoms appear in warm weather — Headache, high temperature, lubrication in the bones, few people comes to blame in their troubles… Komarov. Meanwhile, scientists believe that 70% of cases «Summer influenza» caused by a Japanese virus, or mosquito, encephalitis, which is transmitted to a man with mosquito bites.
— Source of this virus — Wild animals and birds, and mosquitoes, pumping them, can convey the virus to a person, — Talks academician RAMS, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the RGMU, President of the Association of Pediatricians Vasily Pirikhin.
Comlarie encephalitis has long ago, just for a long time not diagnosed it. Specialists of the Institute of Virology. Ivanovsky believes that by the 50 years, many people have already sorted by comlarine encephalitis. In the blood of part of citizens of various age groups, specific antibodies were revealed, which the body produces to protect against illness.
— In the European territory of the country, the disease usually flows in light shape, — Explains Vasily Pirikhkin. — Most citizens transfer comlarn encephalitis and do not even know about it. Disease this insidious, in some cases fraught with serious complications — Motor disorders, palices, paralysis, speech disorders. According to statistics, during outbreaks of mosquito encephalitis, which sometimes happen in the Far Eastern region, 10 people are dying out of 100 sick.
How to treat?
Patient prescribe bed rest, abundant drinking and vitamined food. In severe cases, hospitalized.
How to fight?
Finger after mosquito bite is not worth. «Healthy» mosquito can be distinguished from «infected». Ordinary sit, keeping the abdomen parallel to the surface, and sick — Rim up it up. But it is most reliable to deal with blood proven methods.
Indoors — Fumigators, Outdoor — Anti-mosquito nets, anticcomer spirals and protective creams. Mosquitoes are more active in sweaty citizens — so from dangerous ailment you can protect the usual soap. And if you discovered that the basement of your house is settled by the hordes of mosquitoes, — urgently call the SanEpidemstation. She is obliged to hold events for their destruction.
The mosquito encephalitis virus is viable only in large populations of insects. Single mosquitoes, for example, randomly flown in the apartment, as a rule, are not hazardous.
