TEARS OF BLOOD- THE LASSA FEVER STORY; FOR AIR-CLINIC

timmyeu (60)in #air-clinic • 6 years ago (edited)

Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness, transmitted to humans through contact with food or household items contaminated by infected rodents. Person-to-person transmission can also occur, particularly in hospital environment in the absence of adequate infection control measures.

LASSA is an endemic disease i.e it is native to a particular location, it originates where it occurs

Its major transmitter are RODENTS. This form of transmission is called Animal to Human infection called ZOONOTIC DISEASES e.g ebola
It is deadly& kills faster than other diseases.

images (7).jpeg A chart showing symptoms & treatment of Lassa fever

Diagnosis

According to researchers, Lassa virus infections can only be diagnosed definitively in the laboratory using the following tests:

reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay
antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
antigen detection tests
virus isolation by cell culture

Reference can be found here

Treatment/Cure

Be informed, there is currently no vaccine that protects against Lassa fever, it can only be prevented

Prevention

A chart showing prevention methods

Lassa fever can be prevented through the following measures:

Good personal hygiene and proper environmental sanitation
Store grain and other foodstuffs in rodent-proof containers, disposing of dirts far from residential homes, maintaining clean households, and other measures to disallow rodents from entering homes e.g cutting the bushes around the home
Hand washing should be done often, each home can provide hand sanitizers, its affordable and can be found in medical offices
Drying & frying of food items is also advisable in certain instances e.g cassava flakes
Avoid contact with blood and body fluids cos this is the quickest mode of this viral transfer
promote community hygiene

NB: Viral diseases do not have a specified cure, at least 98% of viral diseases often lead to death

It is advisable to avoid getting infected than looking for cure. Prevention is better than cure

Visit the website for National Center for Diseases ControlNCDC for further guidelines on any disease outbreaks in your community.

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