Beware of Malaria in Rainy Season

District Health Office Lebak Banten province, asking local residents wary of the spread of malaria during the rainy season today.

"We are currently wary of the spread of malaria transmission because of high rainfall, and we are also asking residents to be wary of this penyakita deployment," said Chief Health Lebak Maman Sukirman

Malaria is an infectious disease that can cause death, if patients are not given treatment immediately.

During this time, he said, the malaria endemic areas around the southern coast of Lebak, because in these areas if the rainy season becomes a breeding ground for anopheles mosquitoes that live in the lagoon-lagoon coast.

Some districts that have become endemic malaria coast, namely Sub Cihara, Binuangen, Bayah, Cilograng, Malingping, and Panggarangan.

"I ask people who live around the coast guard requested that the disease attacks," he said.

To prevent the spread of malaria illness prompted more people to the movement to eradicate the mosquitoes nest (PSN) and environmental hygiene.

"Movement is more effective to turn off PSN chain of malaria compared with fumigation or fogging," he said.

During this time, Public Health Service has conducted larvaciding spraying to kill mosquito larva of Anopheles breeding in the lagoon-lagoon on the coast.

In addition, also spread the fish's head to lead it to kill mosquito larvae in lagoons around the coast.

Malaria is usually attacked in the high rainfall so that coastal communities were asked to be aware of the disease.

PHC Officers Bayah Lebak Anwar admitted, during these malaria cases are often attacked.

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Climate change is the spread of disease

Skin cancer and respiratory diseases thought to be the first of two diseases caused by the earth's climate changes, which among other things caused by global warming.

"Depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere has increased the risk of skin cancer and the increase in temperature due to climate change can increase the concentration of surface ozone, which is one of the major air pollutant and can cause respiratory disease," said Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health Ministry of Health Tjandra Yoga Aditama in Jakarta, Thursday (20/01/2011).

He explained that climate change will also trigger the reduction of biodiversity so as to cause the scarcity of raw materials from plants.

In addition, land degradation and changes in ecosystem function can cause changes in the spread of disease vectors and declining water resources. This can lead to limited access to clean water and safe sanitation.

Currently in Indonesia, as well as in many countries around the world, started to show signs such as rainfall increased significantly in the wet season and less rainfall in the dry months.

Tjandra explained, climate change affects health through transmission lines and dynamic microbial contamination. Health impact of these processes, among other things, the effect of increased temperature on morbidity and mortality, extreme weather disasters, increased air pollution, water and food borne diseases, and congenital disease vectors and rodents.

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