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CHIKUNGUNYA AFFECTING OVER 500 PEOPLE IN S SUMATRA
Kayuagung, S. Sumatra, Indonesia, Dec. 12 (ANTARA) - Over 500 residents of Kayuagung and Tulung Selapan sub districts, Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI) District, South Sumatra Province, have been infected with chikungunya virus.
In Tulung Selapan, there were about 500 patients and in Kayuagung around 30, according to information collected, Friday.
Bambang alias Bujuk (35), a resident of Lebung Hitam village, Tulung Selapan sub district, said in his village alone there were at least 250 people who suffered from the disease.
There has been chikungunya outbreak since three weeks ago in the village, according to him.
Head of the OKI district health service dr Herman Ismail Rifa'i said chikungunya was not a fatal disease and it could be cured within a week.
Chikungunya virus disease, which occurs mainly in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, is a viral illness that is spread by the bite of infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The disease resembles dengue fever, and is characterized by severe, sometimes persistent, joint pain (arthritis), as well as fever and rash.
The Aedes mosquitoes that transmit chikungunya breed in a wide variety of man-made containers which are common around human dwellings.
Meanwhile, last November 2009, chikungunya disease has affected around 500 residents in five sub districts in Rejang Lebong District, Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island.
The affected sub districts were Sindang Beliti Ulu, Sindang Beliti Ilir, Padang Ulak Tanding, Binduriang, and Sindang Kelingi sub district, Syamsir, ae Rejang Lebong health service official, said recently.
The local health service immediately conducted mosquito control fogging activity and distributed abate (potent micro-granule insecticide) to kill mosquito larvae, in the five affected sub districts, he said.***
In Tulung Selapan, there were about 500 patients and in Kayuagung around 30, according to information collected, Friday.
Bambang alias Bujuk (35), a resident of Lebung Hitam village, Tulung Selapan sub district, said in his village alone there were at least 250 people who suffered from the disease.
There has been chikungunya outbreak since three weeks ago in the village, according to him.
Head of the OKI district health service dr Herman Ismail Rifa'i said chikungunya was not a fatal disease and it could be cured within a week.
Chikungunya virus disease, which occurs mainly in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, is a viral illness that is spread by the bite of infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The disease resembles dengue fever, and is characterized by severe, sometimes persistent, joint pain (arthritis), as well as fever and rash.
The Aedes mosquitoes that transmit chikungunya breed in a wide variety of man-made containers which are common around human dwellings.
Meanwhile, last November 2009, chikungunya disease has affected around 500 residents in five sub districts in Rejang Lebong District, Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island.
The affected sub districts were Sindang Beliti Ulu, Sindang Beliti Ilir, Padang Ulak Tanding, Binduriang, and Sindang Kelingi sub district, Syamsir, ae Rejang Lebong health service official, said recently.
The local health service immediately conducted mosquito control fogging activity and distributed abate (potent micro-granule insecticide) to kill mosquito larvae, in the five affected sub districts, he said.***
