Be careful, One mosquito bite Can Skyrocket Away Elephants

Be careful, One mosquito bite Can Skyrocket Away Elephants

Illustration of the mosquito Aedes aegypti and the DBD (Dengue Fever).

Post Compass – who would have thought, with just one mosquito bite can make men origin Brazil hit the foot of an elephant. Elephant's foot or in medical terms is called filariasis lymphatic filaria worm transmission is through mosquito bites to humans.

Man named Raimundo were bitten mosquitoes 20 years ago. After a bite of that, gradually, his left foot swell and resembles an elephant's foot. Pembengkakkan it makes it difficult walking. Raimundo He did not immediately seek treatment so that his feet could experience permanent disability.

A team of doctors from Sao Jose Rio Preto in Brazil now trying to shrink the pembengkakkan at the foot of Raimundo. In a matter of weeks, the pembengkakkan began to shrink.

The elephant walk is one of the tropical diseases that cripple. The disease attacks the body's lymphatic system. A parasite that can enter through the skin of a person, then get into the lymphatic system and develop into adult worms.

Pembengkakkan usually occurs due to a bacterial infection and the immune system decline because the lymphatic damage.

This infection is usually marked by extreme swelling in the limbs or genitals. However, most of the parasitic infection was not originally gave rise to symptoms realized pasienya.

On early treatment, doctors could use anthelmintic to expel parasites from the body. To prevent this disease, avoid mosquito bites. For those who reside in areas of endemic, can be prevented with the consumption of an elephant's foot.

This infection occur in Africa, South America, and Asia, including in Indonesia. Indonesia has been targeting the elephant walk free in 2019.