Chikungunya by Mahadev ramjee

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Chikungunyaby Mahadev ramjee
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Mauritius
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Mauritius
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Mauritius and Chikungunya

• Mauritius and Reunion Island is well known to
  have the one of the best medical facilities
  within the region.
• But last two years the medical system received a
  severe blow!!
• The reason
• CHIKUNGUNYA!!

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Chikungunwho??

• Chikungunya is a relatively rare viral fever
  caused by an alphavirus usually spread by
  mosquito bites from Aedes aegypti.

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Chikungunya

• However recently Pasteur institute in Paris
  discovered that a mutated form of the virus can
  be spread by the tiger mosquito.

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Chikungunya

• The origin of the word is believe to come from
  Makonde which is a southeast ethnic group in
  Tanzania and northern Mozambique. Its means
  which bends up.
• Chikungunya is generally not fatal but in yr
  2005-2006 Reunion island registered 200 deaths in
  an epidemy while in Mauritius only a few cases
  were registered.

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Symptoms

• Fever reaching 39 deg which disappears abruptly
  in 2 days
• Maculopapular rash involving limbs and trunk.
• Arthritis
• Headaches
• Conjunctival infection
• Slight photophobia

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Treatment

• So far there is no specific treatment to this
  infection. Chloroquine is believed to have some
  effects on the patient but nothing concrete has
  been found yet.
• Young people and pregnant women tend to recover
  quicker from infection while elderly people are
  more susceptible to longer period of recovery. No
  adverse effects on pregnancy has been discovered
  so far
• Only preventive measures can be taken.

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Preventive measures

• Infected person should avoid further contact with
  mosquitoes by using mosquito repellants,staying
  indoors under a mosquito net.
• Wearing long sleeved-shirts and trousers
• Fixing screens and nets on windows and doors.
• Mosquito control getting rid of mosquito
  breeding areas
• Fumigation

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sources

• www.chikungunya.re
• www.wikipedia.org
• www.servihoo.com
• www.tourmag.com