Old and New Viruses Spread by Air Traveller
December 1st, 2008 admin
It is astonishing news that in a recent report, experts said, ‘Tourists traveling by plane and the growth of cities are combining to help new and old infections spread around the world.’ And dozens of viruses causing often serious diseases are spread by travelers who travel in air rut. Dangerous virus such as Chikungunya and dengue fever are finding new homes by this way, the researchers told an infectious diseases meeting. The researchers of the Pan American Health Organization said in the meeting that dengue fever, which can cause gentle illness or deadly hemorrhagic disease, has come back after decades of abolition successes in Latin America. For the confirmation they give a statistical report. They said 1.03 million cases of dengue were reported in the 1980s and 2.7 million in the 1990s, but 4.6 million were reported from 2000-07. Cause in this time the air traveling increases highest amount. Others, Chikungunya virus, which causes painful and sometimes crippling or fatal symptoms, has spread to quite a few new countries in the past two years. One tourist brought it to Italy very last year, Gubler noted. Also noticed that “The same virus was introduced into India and into Sri Lanka, most likely via infected travelers,”
And most irritating news is lots of new and old infections are a threat for us which are spread by air travel. So it is high time to take proper steps for stopping the new way of spreading disease.
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