Vaccinations and protective equipment

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Андреас, 25.02.2016 17:12

Hello, literally and figuratively. I decided to open a topic that is relevant in my opinion, especially for those colleagues who go and plan to go over the hill in search of scientific discoveries and collecting entomological material.

I studied several links on the Internet and chose-wrote out the most significant in my opinion about the new raspiarina infection-the Zika virus (the effect on fetal development in pregnant women-omitted, as unimportant for me personally).
I still have a lot of questions, but for now I'm ready to listen to the opinions of those interested.

The Zika virus strain was first detected in Uganda, on the African continent, during scientific research on the spread of the yellow fever virus. It was found in the blood of a macaque in 1947. Further studies showed its presence in the body of residents of the country, and then infected people were found throughout the mainland.
In 2007-2013, infected people appeared in Micronesia and French Polynesia, and more than 80 percent of the population had Zika.
It is distributed mainly by the yellow-horned mosquito (Lat. Aedes aegypti), which is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical areas, as well as a mosquito of the species Aedes albopictus, distributed throughout eastern North America up to the Great Lakes.
There is a risk that the virus will spread inside Europe through mosquitoes of the Aedes albopictus species and in the south of Russia, where there is a stable population of Aedes aegypti.
This type of mosquito is very dangerous for humans, it carries several types of dangerous fevers (dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever).
The source of infection and reservoir in the wild remain unknown. It is most likely that people are a source of infection at least during the acute manifestations of the disease.
It has been established that the Zika virus can also be transmitted from person to person through sexual contact.
The virus was found in samples of urine and saliva of patients. The possibility of infection through kissing is being investigated.
The disease is spreading super-fast, outstripping all scientific research on its study;
There are no pharmaceutical means to combat the virus; There is no vaccine or any antiviral therapy for the Zika virus; There is no specific treatment for the disease, no vaccine for the virus, and no sustained immunity to it; Not even vaccine development activities have been initiated; And even tests for its detection diagnostics have limited capabilities.
Accurate accounting of the number of cases is complicated by the fact that only 25% of cases are symptomatic. The virus itself is reliably detected after a few days of infection and only by a blood test. In its acute form, it is similar to Chikungunya virus or dengue fever.
If you get sick, don't take aspirin.
Patients are prescribed bed rest, heavy drinking, antipyretics and taking symptomatic medications. They do not pose a danger to others and can be treated at home after consulting a doctor.
However, only one in five infected people present with symptoms of the disease-skin spots, conjunctivitis and fever-which usually disappear in less than a week.
It is relatively benign, with a short-lived fever, rash, and no pronounced intoxication.
The course of infection is always acute, the disease does not take a chronic form. It passes quickly enough, but the virus can affect the gene structure of the human body and cause rare but dangerous complications.
Cases of neurological and mental disorders in infected people, as well as negative effects of the virus on human immunity, have been reported. The number of people suffering from the rarest Guillain-Barre syndrome, which leads to untreated paralysis and death, has increased.
Immunoglobulin, necessary for the treatment of Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Venezuela has been hiding statistics for a long time. So, in the second half of 2015, more than 400 thousand unusual cases of acute fever were recorded, which may be related to the Zika virus. In just one week in late January and early February, 255 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, potentially caused by the Zika virus, were registered (that is, the probability of dying from Guillain-Barre syndrome, having contracted Zika, is ~0,016% (255/[400000*4]*100=0,0159375%)).
The second most affected country after Brazil was Colombia, where the number of confirmed cases of infection reached 25,645 by February 6.
On February 4, the Colombian authorities reported the first 3 deaths from Guillain-Barre syndrome caused by the Zika virus (that is, the probability of dying from Guillain-Barre syndrome, infected with Zika, is ~0,012% (3/25645*100=0,011698186781%).
” There are also cases of Guillain–Barre syndrome, another disease that has been linked to the Zika virus, but this has not yet been scientifically confirmed, " says Colombian President Jose Manuel Santos.
It is necessary to minimize the risk of contact with the mosquito, which is also a carrier of dengue, yellow fever and Chikungunya fever.
Recently, the disease has attracted close attention due to the possibility of a significant global spread, easy infection of travelers.
At the moment, Zika fever remains a poorly understood disease, the areas of its impact on humanity are not sufficiently analyzed, so scientists and practicing doctors still have a lot of work to do to solve all its secrets.

Well, - and quite specifically-I want to ask about the possibility and expediency of getting vaccinated against yellow fever. The Ministry of Water Resources has not heard anything about it, has never done it, and does not have a vaccine at its disposal, allegedly in the entire Stavropol Territory.

I want to know-how much it costs (if not free); where to get it; how many times and at what intervals it should be done; how quickly does immunity come?[i]

This post was edited by Andreas - 02/25/2016 17: 25