Health news Spooky troubling and spread of killer disease in West Africa
Co Get to know Lassa fever which spread dreadfully in West Africa, causing significant mortality.
انتشار مقلق ومخيف لمرض قاتل في غرب افريقيا
Nigeria has suffered since early this year spread is scary for a fatal disease called Lassa fever (Lassa Fever) which does not have any vaccine yet.
Lassa fever is not a disease, but this spread is unprecedented, and very fast unexpectedly, so that many health workers were infected with the disease.
This disease affects several members of the human body and would cause damage to blood vessels, treatment is very difficult.
It should be noted that people who are infected with Lassa fever, show minor symptoms such as fever , headache, general weakness, and may not show any symptoms at all, but in severe cases may suffer from bleeding in the mouth, nose and other parts of the body.
Although the death rate from the disease reaches only 1% according to the World Health Organization, but that figure rose in Nigeria for more than 20%.
Believes that more than 90 people died in Nigeria because of the disease yet, but expects that the number is much higher, given the difficulty of diagnosing infection with fever.
The data suggest that pregnant women with late stage disease, exposure to the risk of losing the fetus by 80%, adding to the threat to life itself.

Why spread the disease now?

Specialists believe that the spread of the disease at this time, this fast, may be due to climatic changes affecting a certain type of mice that transmits the disease to humans.
With the presence of these mice in West Africa and can't find their way into the houses easily.
Proliferation may be caused by lack of awareness about the disease, or that the virus may not of itself a bit.

How the disease is transmitted?

Possible infection through contact with anything contaminated with Paul the sort of mice or stool or blood or saliva, whether by eating the contaminated food or drink or handle anything.
When you hit someone with the disease, be able to infect others through body fluids.
But the answer is still unclear about the possibility of HIV transmission through sexual contact.