Touring overseas this summer time? Watch out for ‘mosquito-borne infectious illnesses’ [e건강~쏙]

There are considerations that as mosquito habitats develop on account of local weather change, mosquito-borne infectious illnesses will improve. Particularly, because the quantity of people that wish to journey overseas in the summertime will increase, we should bear in mind mosquito-borne infectious illnesses equivalent to dengue fever, malaria, and yellow fever, which may trigger demise by means of regurgitation.

If you’re getting ready to journey overseas, you want to watch out. Dengue fever, a consultant infectious illness carried by mosquitoes, impacts greater than 100 million folks annually. The variety of sufferers is rising quickly in Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, that are visited by many Koreans.

It’s a viral illness that’s transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and up to now there isn’t a efficient vaccine or preventive therapy in Korea. Son Jun-seong, a professor of infectious illnesses at Kangdong Kyunghee College Hospital, mentioned, “The severity of signs equivalent to bleeding and shock could be very excessive in individuals who have been reinfected after affected by dengue fever previously. gone, and due to this fact extra warning is required.”

Malaria is a fever referred to as ‘Hakjil’ in Korea. Not like domestically contracted malaria, overseas contracted malaria is extra prone to progress to extreme illness. If therapy is missed, the spleen might rupture, and central nervous system abnormalities might trigger reminiscence loss, convulsions, and psychological breakdown.

The demise price is excessive, so watch out. Signs embrace sudden excessive fever, chills, headache, and lack of urge for food. It’s a illness that requires immediate analysis and therapy.

When touring to high-risk areas the place mosquito-borne infectious illnesses equivalent to dengue fever and malaria happen, it’s best to arrange mosquito repellent provides and keep away from locations equivalent to rural areas or forests as a lot as doable. When going out, you need to put on a light-weight long-sleeved prime and lengthy pants. When reserving lodging, test if the property has insect screens or mosquito nets and is effectively ventilated.

Earlier than you journey, it is also necessary to test details about infectious illnesses to concentrate on for every space you intend to go to. You may test infectious illness prevention data by nation on the Korea Company for Illness Management and Prevention web site.

When visiting nations equivalent to Africa, Southeast Asia, and South and South America, relying on the area, it’s essential to seek the advice of and acquire a prescription for anti-malarial medicine earlier than touring. As well as, when touring to sure nations in Africa and Latin and South America, some nations require a yellow fever vaccination certificates upon entry or when issuing a visa . In Korea, dwell fever vaccination and certification is just supplied by internationally acknowledged vaccination facilities. Yellow fever vaccination have to be accomplished 10 days earlier than coming into a excessive threat space.

Professor Son Jun-seong emphasised that prior prevention is important, saying, “Vaccination could also be crucial relying on the world you might be touring to and your situation, so it’s crucial to debate to an infectious illness specialist no less than 4 weeks earlier than you journey. “

In case you develop signs equivalent to fever, headache, muscle ache, joint ache, or rash inside 4 weeks after returning to your own home nation, you need to go to a close-by medical heart and inform the workers medical intimately about your current overseas journey historical past. You must cease donating blood inside 4 weeks of returning to your nation. The blood donation withholding interval varies by nation and visiting interval, so please test by means of the web site of the Korean Purple Cross Blood Administration Headquarters.