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TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TO HAITI, AFGANI, ETC. ARE THERE BUGS LIKE MOSQUITOES AND BLACK FLYS OR OTHER BUGS? WHEN ARE THEY THE WORST? THANKS BUDS!
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No need yo yell ;D
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Not yelling bud, just thought it would be easier for all of ya to read, sorry, thanks for the heads up though.
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go to the World Health Organizations (WHO) site and see travel section...There they answer any and all disease (and yes bugs) related questions...
http://www.who.int/en/
A good one to look up is leishmaniasis....caused by a fly...might have been a couple cases around...
http://www.who.int/en/
A good one to look up is leishmaniasis....caused by a fly...might have been a couple cases around...
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Can't say I didn't tell you...
http://www.canada.com/victoria/timescolonist/news/story.html?id=5415fa06-51e8-4ae1-9e7d-30515e072236
Disfiguring disease by Afghan sandfly bite alarms health officials
Sarah Staples
CanWest News Service
August 21, 2004
Canadian soldiers newly arrived in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led coalition have more than the threat of terrorism to deal with. An outbreak of a horribly deforming disease caused by the bite of the sand fly has reached epidemic proportions and "threatens to escalate into an uncontrollable situation," according to the World Health Organization.
WHO officials are planning an urgent campaign to distribute insecticide-treated bednets to protect more than 30,000 people considered at risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis, which leaves victims disfigured usually on the face, feet and hands, and leads to social stigma, particularly for women and children.
A spokesman for Task Force Kabul, the contingent of 600 to 700 Canadian soldiers mostly from Edmonton who arrived Aug. 10 as part of the NATO mission to Afghanistan, said they're adequately protected against various medical contingencies, including malaria and scorpions, but confirmed troops wouldn't have known in advance of the magnitude of the outbreak they were heading into.
"They're briefed that this disease exists and that it's transmitted by sand flies," said Capt. Darren Steele, public affairs officer for the Canadian military in Kabul. "They weren't briefed on the specific number (of leishmaniasis victims) because that is a pretty recent compilation of numbers."
In Kabul, epicentre of the outbreak and the largest centre of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the world, WHO estimates 67,500 people have contracted the disease this year.
Throughout Afghanistan, there have been about 200,000 cases during the current phase of the epidemic, which began in 1990 and returns every summer. The peak season is from July until about November, when cooler temperatures start to kill off the flies.
A WHO spokeswoman said Kabul has become an extraordinary breeding ground because large numbers of refugees -- their health compromised by decades of war and poverty -- are returning to the city from temporary asylum in Pakistan, yet sanitation, housing and health infrastructure is still poor.
"The window of opportunity is right now if we are going to have any chance of controlling the situation," Maria Cheng said Friday by phone from Geneva.
A $321,173 grant by the Belgian government is being set aside to battle the outbreak in Kabul and there are plans later to extend aid to remote regions.
There is no vaccine for the disease, which spreads when flies bite an infected person and become carriers of a parasite they then transmit by biting the next victim. On a global scale, it is the third most common insect-borne disease, after malaria and filariasis, a worm that causes swelling of the limbs.
Ultimately, lesions heal themselves; faster if treated with sodium stibogluconate, a drug that is not only potentially highly toxic, but also traumatic and painful to administer, particularly for children who are the majority of victims in endemic areas.
Shots are given either into muscle tissue for 21 consecutive days, or five doses spread over 15 to 20 days are injected directly into the sores.
Compliance is a major problem: after 10 days the sores may look healed, so some patients simply abandon their treatment. But semi-healed pustules can reappear year after year, making the patient a chronic source of infection, said epidemiologist Richard Reithinger, who until last year was in charge of relief efforts in Kabul for Healthnet International, a Dutch organization.
Reithinger called the risk to Canadian troops "low, but not negligible."
One Canadian soldier stationed in Afghanistan from August 2003 to February returned with a suspected case of leishmaniasis, but no further problems were reported among the 2,300 troops who recently returned to Quebec's Valcartier base. :warstory:
I can say with certainty that there was more then one case of this disease diagnosised in Roto 0 troops who came back in Feb...
Guys there now are at higher risk because of the summer season.
http://www.canada.com/victoria/timescolonist/news/story.html?id=5415fa06-51e8-4ae1-9e7d-30515e072236
Disfiguring disease by Afghan sandfly bite alarms health officials
Sarah Staples
CanWest News Service
August 21, 2004
Canadian soldiers newly arrived in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led coalition have more than the threat of terrorism to deal with. An outbreak of a horribly deforming disease caused by the bite of the sand fly has reached epidemic proportions and "threatens to escalate into an uncontrollable situation," according to the World Health Organization.
WHO officials are planning an urgent campaign to distribute insecticide-treated bednets to protect more than 30,000 people considered at risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis, which leaves victims disfigured usually on the face, feet and hands, and leads to social stigma, particularly for women and children.
A spokesman for Task Force Kabul, the contingent of 600 to 700 Canadian soldiers mostly from Edmonton who arrived Aug. 10 as part of the NATO mission to Afghanistan, said they're adequately protected against various medical contingencies, including malaria and scorpions, but confirmed troops wouldn't have known in advance of the magnitude of the outbreak they were heading into.
"They're briefed that this disease exists and that it's transmitted by sand flies," said Capt. Darren Steele, public affairs officer for the Canadian military in Kabul. "They weren't briefed on the specific number (of leishmaniasis victims) because that is a pretty recent compilation of numbers."
In Kabul, epicentre of the outbreak and the largest centre of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the world, WHO estimates 67,500 people have contracted the disease this year.
Throughout Afghanistan, there have been about 200,000 cases during the current phase of the epidemic, which began in 1990 and returns every summer. The peak season is from July until about November, when cooler temperatures start to kill off the flies.
A WHO spokeswoman said Kabul has become an extraordinary breeding ground because large numbers of refugees -- their health compromised by decades of war and poverty -- are returning to the city from temporary asylum in Pakistan, yet sanitation, housing and health infrastructure is still poor.
"The window of opportunity is right now if we are going to have any chance of controlling the situation," Maria Cheng said Friday by phone from Geneva.
A $321,173 grant by the Belgian government is being set aside to battle the outbreak in Kabul and there are plans later to extend aid to remote regions.
There is no vaccine for the disease, which spreads when flies bite an infected person and become carriers of a parasite they then transmit by biting the next victim. On a global scale, it is the third most common insect-borne disease, after malaria and filariasis, a worm that causes swelling of the limbs.
Ultimately, lesions heal themselves; faster if treated with sodium stibogluconate, a drug that is not only potentially highly toxic, but also traumatic and painful to administer, particularly for children who are the majority of victims in endemic areas.
Shots are given either into muscle tissue for 21 consecutive days, or five doses spread over 15 to 20 days are injected directly into the sores.
Compliance is a major problem: after 10 days the sores may look healed, so some patients simply abandon their treatment. But semi-healed pustules can reappear year after year, making the patient a chronic source of infection, said epidemiologist Richard Reithinger, who until last year was in charge of relief efforts in Kabul for Healthnet International, a Dutch organization.
Reithinger called the risk to Canadian troops "low, but not negligible."
One Canadian soldier stationed in Afghanistan from August 2003 to February returned with a suspected case of leishmaniasis, but no further problems were reported among the 2,300 troops who recently returned to Quebec's Valcartier base. :warstory:
I can say with certainty that there was more then one case of this disease diagnosised in Roto 0 troops who came back in Feb...
Guys there now are at higher risk because of the summer season.
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Bug (arachnid) captured in Haiti. Fairly common over there in the grass.
This guy isn't the biggest one either, probably one of the smaller ones actually.
This guy isn't the biggest one either, probably one of the smaller ones actually.
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Bugs are found throughout the majority of the world, and in most parts of the world they will be worst during the summer season (May - September in the Northern Hemisphere; October - April in the Southern Hemisphere).
In specific, Haiti has mosquitoes. Dengue fever is a risk, as it is in any tropical country, but malaria is not so much of a worry. Haiti will also have flies of various types, and spiders of many varieties. Beware of bananna spiders. I'm not sure about Afghanistan, but I'd guess they have their share of winged and non-winged insects and several varieties of arachnids.
In specific, Haiti has mosquitoes. Dengue fever is a risk, as it is in any tropical country, but malaria is not so much of a worry. Haiti will also have flies of various types, and spiders of many varieties. Beware of bananna spiders. I'm not sure about Afghanistan, but I'd guess they have their share of winged and non-winged insects and several varieties of arachnids.
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Yep thats a second spider in there with Jackie.
Both Dengue and Malaria are endemic to Haiti and specifically Port au Prince where we were for the most part. Luckily no one on this mission managed to catch either. I guess there were a few cases during UNMIH. A friend of mine did manage to get bit by a centipede. His hand swelled up almost twice its normal size and the wound took at least a month to heal. During that time it was pretty much an open sore the size of a dime. Very painful too apparently.
Both Dengue and Malaria are endemic to Haiti and specifically Port au Prince where we were for the most part. Luckily no one on this mission managed to catch either. I guess there were a few cases during UNMIH. A friend of mine did manage to get bit by a centipede. His hand swelled up almost twice its normal size and the wound took at least a month to heal. During that time it was pretty much an open sore the size of a dime. Very painful too apparently.
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