Saturday, August 27, 2011

Plague

Plague
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Plague contagious acute bacterial disease, a disease common among human, animal and is classified as a quarantine disease caused serious epidemics in the absence of control.
Sources of infection and methods of Antqalhaanksm plague into three sections or three kinds of different ways of transmission and spread from one type to another, namely:
Bubonic plague:Is the species most frequently, left the disease among rodents like mice and rats which are considered the natural reservoir for this disease, is transmitted to each other by fleas, which caused her death and, where epidemics are transmitted fleas from the bodies of rodents dead and attack the human body to feed on blood, and become infectious for several months later.
Pneumonic plague:The most dangerous plague for ease of transmission and spread among close contacts of the patient, especially in the climatic conditions and environmental health of others, travels through the waste the sick person to person.
The initial symptoms are headache, weakness, cough with blood or vomit blood. Can not distinguish these symptoms from several other diseases of the respiratory system. To diagnosis and treatment of infection can be fatal within a day to six days. Mortality in untreated cases is almost 100%.
Plague venenata:This type is similar to bubonic plague in the modes of transmission, where the disease is transmitted by fleas from rodents to humans.
[Edit] Symptoms and signsA map showing the spread of the disease in animals and humans until 1998 Meetmaz plague the appearance of general symptoms of infection with bacteria, as well as characteristic symptoms of each type of types of the three, and general symptoms represented in the high temperature and severe fatigue and tremors, and muscle and joint pain, nausea, sore throat, pharynx, mental disturbances and coma.
The markings for each type of which are as follows:
Bubonic plague:Patient suffers severe infections and painful swelling of lymph glands close to the place of flea bites.
Pneumonic plague:This type heavy coughs and phlegm, as well as the symptoms of the disease.
Plague venenata:This type of complication is often satisfactory to the former two types - bubonic and pneumonic - is characterized by a very high temperature and a sharp decline in the heart, in addition to the symptoms of the disease.
[Edit] Alalajtaatm address the plague is with antibiotics, and there are good chances for success in the case of early detection of disease. Used, for example, compounds streptomycin and chloramphenicol in addition to configurations consisting of tetracycline and sulfonamide. Alstervtotomitin given IM injections only. While chloramphenicol treatment is effective, although side effects symptoms (which appear with the use for long periods, mainly in its effect on bone marrow as it leads to a malignant anemia), which makes it a treatment for intractable cases only.
[Edit] Aelloukaúahkagraouat preventive measures in general, is the rodent fleas by the health authorities responsible for the prevention of the spread and control the disease before it appears.
Preventive measures to the patient:Enforced isolation of patients in private hospitals until they are cured, as well as the secretions of the patient must be decontaminated and disposed of his belongings and burning, and tools to purge the patient by boiling or steam under high pressure, and also to purge the patient room well after the end of the case.
Preventive measures to contacts:Been accounted for and examination of all the contacts of direct and indirect for the patient and examine samples of blood, as well as protective vaccine is immunized.
In cases of pneumonic plague, is to isolate all contacts of the patient is compulsory for ten days.
In cases of bubonic plague and control venenata are in contact for a period of ten days in anticipation of the emergence of any new disease cases among them.

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