After the previous year (2022) witnessed the emergence of the hemorrhagic fever disease in Iraq on a large scale, including most of its provinces and there were many infections between humans and animals, in the resent time veterinary department of Iraq is carrying out a campaign to spray yards, areas, and animal pens with materials that neutralize the appearance of insects that transmit the virus that causes infection.In case of realizing the losses that could occur as a result of anticipation of his reappearance this summer, field teams affiliated with the Veterinary Department in all governorates of Iraq (except for the Kurdistan Region) are currently carrying out campaigns to spray animal sheds with insecticidal materials (ticks, mosquitoes, flies) in addition to rats, mice and bats, which are the main carriers of the disease from animal to human. As reported by the veterinary department media.Iraq is considered one of the countries where hemorrhagic fever disease (Criminal-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever) is endemic, and it was discovered in 1979 in Al-Yarmouk Hospital. This disease is included in the group of dengue fever, Ebola fever, Lassa fever, Marburg fever, and yellow fever. Iraq had witnessed cases of this disease amounting up to (36) deaths out of a total of (214) cases of human infection, with the major share of (Thi-Qar) governorate in the south of the country, according to what the Ministry of Health indicated at the end of July 2022. As for the cases of infection and death among animals, they were not confirmed, and there were no final reports on that. However, experts in animal epidemic diseases stress those human cases must be associated with a greater number of infected animals.Infection cases usually abound in humans as a result of random slaughter outside veterinary control and in places not reached by veterinary health and by people who are not qualified to do so. As the blood of infected animals is the main source for the presence of the virus that causes the disease, which can be transmitted directly through contact with the blood and body fluids of the infected animal, or indirectly through stinging insects that transmit the disease to humans or even to another animal.The spread of the disease can be controlled by killing and preventing insects that carry the disease from being present in animal breeding and care areas, and veterinary health supervision over all slaughtering, transporting and selling operations for meat. This requires government support for the veterinary departments and coordination of the concerned departments. Guidance and awareness campaigns for workers in this field should also accompany this. It is possible to focus on judicial and legal procedures with violators and transgressors of the law and instructions.Among the most important symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in humans are high fever, body pain, intestinal cramps, subcutaneous hemorrhages, skin rashes, blood coming out from the various orifices of the body, bloody diarrhea, and bloody vomiting, and coma. As for animals, it is usually not clear and includes a rise in temperature and transient fever.Protection from disease lies in following healthy and sound procedures in dealing with animals, especially in the process of slaughtering, milking and animal handling. As well as paying attention to the sources of buying meat and making sure of a good washing and good cooking process for it, as this is sufficient to kill the viruses that cause disease.

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