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Symptoms | Chikungunya virus | CDC - 0 views

  • Symptoms, Diagnosis, & Treatment Symptoms Most people infected with chikungunya virus will develop some symptoms. Symptoms usually begin 3–7 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. The most common symptoms are fever and joint pain. Other symptoms may include headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, or rash. Chikungunya disease does not often result in death, but the symptoms can be severe and disabling. Most patients feel better within a week. In some people, the joint pain may persist for months. People at risk for more severe disease include newborns infected around the time of birth, older adults (≥65 years), and people with medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or heart disease. Once a person has been infected, he or she is likely to be protected from future infections. Diagnosis The symptoms of chikungunya are similar to those of dengue, another disease spread by mosquitoes. See your doctor if you develop the symptoms described above. If you have recently traveled, tell your doctor. Your doctor may order blood tests to look for chikungunya or other similar diseases. Treatment There is no medicine to treat chikungunya virus infection or disease. Decrease the symptoms: Get plenty of rest Drink fluids to prevent dehydration Take medicines, such as ibuprofen, naproxen, acetaminophen, or paracetamol, to relieve fever and pain.
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Chikungunya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The incubation period of chikungunya disease ranges from 2 to 12 days, typically two to three. The majority of those infected will develop symptoms.[11] Symptoms include a fever up to 40 °C (104 °F), petechial or maculopapular rash of the trunk and occasionally the limbs, and arthralgia or arthritis affecting multiple joints.[12] Other nonspecific symptoms can include headache, nausea, vomiting, conjunctivitis, slight photophobia, and partial loss of taste.[13] Ocular inflammation from chikungunya may present as iridocyclitis, or uveitis. Retinal lesions may also occur.[14] Swelling of legs is observed in many people, the cause of which remains obscure as it is not related to any cardiovascular, renal, or hepatic abnormalities. Typically, the fever lasts for two days and then ends abruptly. However, other symptoms, namely joint pain, intense headache, insomnia and an extreme degree of prostration, last for a variable period, usually about five to seven days.[12] People have complained of joint pains for much longer time periods, some as long as two years, depending on their age.[15][16] Recovery from the disease varies by age. Younger people recover within five to 15 days; middle-aged people recover in 1.0 to 2.5 months. Recovery is longer for the elderly. The severity of the disease, as well as its duration, is less in younger people and pregnant women. In pregnant women, no untoward effects are noticed after the infection.
  • Observations during recent epidemics have suggested chikungunya may cause long-term symptoms following acute infection. During the La Reunion outbreak in 2006, more than 50% of subjects over the age of 45 reported long-term musculoskeletal pain[17] with up to 60% of people reporting prolonged arthralgia three years following initial infection.[18] A study of imported cases in France reported that 59% of people still suffered from arthralgia two years after acute infection.[19] Following a local epidemic of chikungunya in Italy, 66% of people reported muscles pains, joint pains, or asthenia at one year after acute infection.[20] Long-term symptoms are not an entirely new observation; long-term arthritis was observed following an outbreak in 1979.[21] Common predictors of prolonged symptoms are increased age and prior rheumatological disease.[17][18][20][22] The cause of these chronic symptoms is currently not fully known. Markers of autoimmune or rheumatoid disease have not been found in people reporting chronic symptoms.[18][23] However, some evidence from humans and animal models suggests chikungunya may be able to establish chronic infections within the host. Viral antigen was detected in a muscle biopsy of a people suffering a recurrent episode of disease three months after initial onset.[24] Additionally, viral antigen and RNA were found in synovial macrophages of a person during a relapse of musculoskeletal disease 18 months after initial infection.[25] Several animal models have also suggested chikungunya virus may establish persistent infections. In a mouse model, viral RNA was detected specifically in joint-associated tissue for at least 16 weeks after inoculation, and was associated with chronic synovitis.[26] Similarly, another study reported detection of a viral reporter gene in joint tissue of mice for weeks after inoculation.[27] In a nonhuman primate model, chikungunya virus was found to persist in the spleen for at least six weeks.[28]
  • The most effective means of prevention are protection against contact with the disease-carrying mosquitoes and mosquito control.[9] These include using insect repellents with substances such as DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide; also known as N,N'-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide or NNDB), icaridin (also known as picaridin and KBR3023), PMD (p-menthane-3,8-diol, a substance derived from the lemon eucalyptus tree), or IR3535. Wearing bite-proof long sleeves and trousers also offers protection. In addition, garments can be treated with pyrethroids, a class of insecticides that often has repellent properties. Vaporized pyrethroids (for example in mosquito coils) are also insect repellents. Securing screens on windows and doors will help to keep mosquitoes out of the house. In the case of the day-active A. aegypti and A. albopictus, however, this will have only a limited effect, since many contacts between the mosquitoes and humans occur outside.
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  • In those who have more than two weeks of arthritis, ribavirin may be useful.[9] The effect of chloroquine is not clear.[9] It does not appear to help acute disease, but tentative evidence indicates it might help those with chronic arthritis.[9] Steroids do not appear useful, either.[9]
  • Currently, no specific treatment is available.[9] Attempts to relieve the symptoms include the use of NSAIDs such as naproxen or paracetamol (acetaminophen) and fluids.[9] Aspirin is not recommended.[57]
ivanna salome

Ebola virus disease Information for Clinicians in U.S. Healthcare Settings | Ebola Hemo... - 0 views

  • Patients can progress from the initial non-specific symptoms after about 5 days to develop gastrointestinal symptoms such as severe watery diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Other symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, headache or confusion, may also develop. Patients often have conjunctival injection.
  • The most common signs and symptoms reported from West Africa during the current outbreak from symptom-onset to the time the case was detected include: fever (87%), fatigue (76%), vomiting (68%), diarrhea (66%), and loss of appetite (65%).
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      symptoms reported from west africa
andres mejia

Chikungunya virus - symptoms, treatment and prevention :: SA Health - 0 views

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      how is it spread: touch people infected by wave the hand of the person infected.
  • Humans and other primates are the natural hosts for the chikungunya virus. The virus is spread to humans by the bite of an infected female Aedes species mosquito – Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus. These are the same tropical and sub-tropical mosquitoes that carry the dengue virus. They breed in or near human habitations and prefer to feed on humans during the daytime in shady areas, but may also bite early in the night. In Australia, Aedes aegypti currently is found in north Queensland while Aedes albopictus is found in a few locations in the Torres Strait. Infections reported in Australia are from people who have travelled overseas to regions where the chikungunya virus is present. To date chikungunya virus infection has not been transmitted by mosquitoes in Australia. However, since the mosquitoes capable of transmitting the infection are found in northern Australia there is the potential for this to occur.
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      here are some symtoms of the virus chikungunya like high fever,severe joint pain mainly in the arms and legs,headache,muscle pain,back pain,and rash (about 50% of affected people)
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  • Signs and symptoms Chikungunya infection is characterised by sudden onset of: high fever severe joint pain mainly in the arms and legs headache muscle pain back pain rash (about 50% of affected people).
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      here are some treatment for the chikungunya.
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Belize Confirms Patient With Ebola Symptoms On Cruise Ship Off Its Coast - 0 views

  • Reports tonight are that two individuals possibly infected with the Ebola virus are in Belizean waters. Local TV station Channel 7 monitored in the capital City Of Belmopan tonight, reported having credible reports that a couple from a Texas-based cruise ship presently anchored off Belize City, is on a ship tender, unable to return to the cruise ship, while being refused entry to Belize City to catch an air ambulance awaiting at the International Airport to take them to the their country of origin, the U.S.A. The television station in its broadcast tonight said Belize health authorities contacted tonight have so far refused to deny or confirm the report. The patient exhibiting Ebola symptoms has been confirmed to be a nurse at a Dallas hospital traveling with her husband.
gabriel loera

Ebola virus disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The spread of Ebola between people occurs only by direct contact with the blood or body fluids of a person after symptoms have developed.[1][3] Body fluids that may contain ebolaviruses include saliva, mucus, vomit, feces, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine, and semen.[23] Entry points include the nose, mouth, eyes, or open wounds, cuts and abrasions.[23] Contact with objects contaminated by the virus, particularly needles and syringes may also transmit the infection.[24] The virus is able to survive on objects for a few hours in a dried state and can survive for a few days within body fluids.[23] Ebola virus may be able to persist in the semen of survivors for up to seven weeks after recovery, which could give rise to infections via sexual intercourse.[1] Otherwise, people who have recovered are not infectious.[24] The potential for widespread infections in countries with medical systems capable of observing correct medical isolation procedures is considered low.[25] Usually when someone has symptoms, they are sufficiently unwell that they are unable to travel without assistance.[26]
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      Ebola transmission
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Painful chikungunya virus spreading rapidly in Caribbean | Fox News - 0 views

  • Hospitals and clinics throughout the Caribbean are seeing thousands of people with the same symptoms, victims of a virus with a long and unfamiliar name that has been spread rapidly by mosquitoes across the islands after the first locally transmitted case was confirmed in December.
  • "It is terrible, I have never in my life gotten such an illness," said Maria Norde, a 66-year-old woman confined to bed at her home on the lush eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. "All my joints are in pain."
  • Outbreaks of the virus have long made people miserable in Africa and Asia.
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  • One thing is certain: The virus has found fertile ground in the Caribbean, where it is rapidly spreading. The Pan American Health Organization reports more than 55,000 suspected and confirmed cases since December throughout the islands.
  • Chikungunya was identified in Africa in 1953 and is found throughout the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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    Hospitals and clinics throughout the Caribbean are seeing thousands of people with the same symptoms, victims of a virus with a long and unfamiliar name that has been spread rapidly by mosquitoes across the islands after the first locally transmitted case was confirmed in December. The Caribbean suffering a lot since december lets help them
andres mejia

El Salvador says nearly 30,000 infected with mosquito-borne chikungunya  - NY... - 0 views

  • El Salvador has detected nearly 30,000 cases of the painful mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya, and has undertaken measures to prevent the disease-carrying mosquitoes breeding, the head of the country's emergency services said on Wednesday.
  • Since June, when the first case was reported, there have been 29,704 people infected by the virus, with 204 of them hospitalized, Jorge Melendez told Reuters. "Having never been in contact with this strain, the Salvadoran population has no defense," Melendez said, adding that nobody has died from the outbreak. Melendez said most of the cases have been reported in the capital city of San Salvador, where authorities have been cleaning rivers and fumigating. Infection with the virus, spread by two mosquito species, typically is not fatal but can cause debilitating symptoms including fever, headache and severe joint pain lasting weeks or months. There is no current treatment and no licensed vaccine to prevent it. The virus showed up for the first time in the Americas late last year. In the United States, locally transmitted infections — as opposed to infections in Americans traveling abroad — have been reported for the first time this year.
silvana escobar

Chikungunya in the Caribbean - Watch - Level 1, Practice Usual Precautions - Travel Hea... - 0 views

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      Chikungunya is passed by mosquito bites. People who have had chikungunya suffer of these sympotms: joint pain, fever, rash, head aches and weakness. Usually no one is killed because of chikungunya however these symptoms could start rubbing off for about years while others could just have it for couple of days.
  • ollowing active ingredients: DEET (Products containing DEET include Off!, Cutter, Sawyer, and Ultrathon) Picaridin (also known as KBR 3023, Bayrepel, and icaridin products containing picaridin include Cutter Advanced, Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus, and Autan [outside the US]) Oil of lemon eucalyptus (OLE) or PMD (Products containing OLE include Repel and Off! Botanicals) IR3535  (Products containing IR3535 include Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus Expedition and SkinSmart)
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      Soem outcomes can be taking medicines such as deet, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus and IR3535
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