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| Italy has three chikungunya fever cases in Anzio | |
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| skibboy | 8 Sep 2017, 11:50 PM Post #1 |
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Italy has three chikungunya fever cases in Anzio 4 hours ago ![]() A female Aedes aegypti mosquito - the type that spreads chikungunya Three people have been diagnosed with mosquito-borne chikungunya fever in Anzio, 50km (30 miles) south of Rome, Italian media report. The viral disease causes acute fever and joint pain, and there is no cure, but it is rarely fatal. It is widespread in the tropics, but the three people in Anzio district are believed to have caught it locally. Anzio has been ordered to halt blood donations. On 3 September a girl died of cerebral malaria in northern Italy. Both malaria and chikungunya are very rare in Italy, which drained mosquito-infested marshes in the 1950s. The two blood diseases are transmitted by different mosquito species. Italy's first outbreak of locally transmitted chikungunya was in 2007, in Emilia Romagna. It is not clear how the virus arrived in Anzio, but the suspect area has now been fumigated. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What is chikungunya? Chinkungunya is a viral disease spread by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes that bite during daylight hours. It cannot be transmitted from person to person. The female Anopheles mosquito spreads malaria. The name chinkungunya derives from a word meaning "to become contorted" from the African Kimakonde language. Symptoms include the sudden onset of fever and joint pain, particularly affecting the hands, wrists, ankles and feet. Most patients recover after a few days but in some cases the joint pain may persist for weeks, months or even longer. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Source: .com
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| skibboy | 14 Sep 2017, 01:21 AM Post #2 |
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13 September 2017 Rome sets mosquito campaign after chikungunya cases ![]() © DRASS/AFP | The Aedes Albopictus is one of two types of mosquito which transmit the rare Chikungunya virus ROME (AFP) - The city of Rome on Wednesday announced it would carry out a fast-track anti-mosquito campaign after a string of suspected cases of the insect-borne chikungunya virus were detected in the region. The move was criticised as too late by the national minister of health, who added it was likely that blood donations in Rome may have to be halted to help stop transmission of the disease. In a statement, city hall said disinfection and other anti-mosquito measures would be carried out "in all urban areas where clinical cases (of chikungunya) have been notified by the local health authorities," known by the initials of ASL. Chikungunya, first identified in Tanzania in 1952, is a painful joint disease transmitted by two species of mosquito. It causes high fever, nausea, headaches and extreme fatigue, but is generally non-fatal and most patients recover. Its name comes from Swahili for "that which bends up," for it leaves victims stooped. The viral disease is endemic in Africa and south Asia and has been moving westwards, where it now occurs in Latin America, and north, towards Europe, where the authorities are striving to prevent it from become established. Seventeen cases of the disease have been recorded in recent days in Italy's Latium region that incudes Rome, including six in the capital itself, according to the regional service for infectious disease surveillance (Seresmi). Most of the cases have been people who live, or have stayed, in the Anzio district 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Rome, a cluster which strengthens suspicions that the source was local. Italian Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin said that Wednesday's announcement by city hall was too late. "Too much time has elapsed since the ASL asked for intervention," Lorenzin said. The ASL filed the request on September 7. Lorenzin also said a decision on halting blood donations in Rome was "very likely." The two species that can carry chikungunya are the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) and the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). Both are able to carry dengue fever as well as the yellow fever virus. Ten years ago, more than 200 cases of chikungunya were found in the northeastern Italian region of Emilia Romagna. The initial source is believed to be a man who had arrived in the area from Kerala, India, where the infection took place. Source: .com
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