Beware of ARI and diarrhea in Rainy Season

Beware of ARI and diarrhea in Rainy Season



Friday, 11/11/2011 - 06:34

BANDUNG (AFP) .- Along with the arrival of the rainy season, people are expected to guard against acute respiratory infections (ARI), including cough and cold and diarrhea. Based on the experience they had done before, both diseases are most common in the community....



 ..Asked about the bird flu (H5N1), Primal said the disease can occur at any time, not associated with changes in seasons or weather. Bird flu is transmitted from birds to humans in an area that has been declared endemic. Strict monitoring should be done when suddenly there was poultry that died suddenly in large numbers. "Agencies concerned should immediately intervene to ensure the bird flu or not. People associated with poultry, poultry suspected of either bird flu or not, still have to maintain hygiene after contact with poultry, wash hands with soap and animal husbandry can be separated if the distance is not so easy to man transmission from birds to humans, "he said