Beware of Rabies for your Health !!

Disease Rabies or hydrophobia is a contagious disease of animals caused by viruses and can attack warm-blooded animals and humans.

In animals suffering from rabies, the virus is found in large quantities in saliva. This virus will be transmitted to other animals or to humans primarily through bite wounds. Therefore, the Carnivora (dogs, cats, wolves) is the most important animals as a propagator of rabies.

Rabies disease is a disease Zoonosa very dangerous and feared because when you attack people or animals will always end in death.

Given the dangers malignancy rabies and tranquility of the community life, the prevention and eradication of this disease need to be implemented intensively. For that the government set to rabies-free Indonesia in 2005.


Animals that are susceptible to rabies

All warm-blooded animals are susceptible to rabies. Rabies disease naturally present in the dogs, cats, bats and wild carnivores.


Incubation Period

The incubation period is the time between onset of symptoms until penggigitan disease. Rabies disease incubation period in dogs and cats less than 2 weeks (10 days-14 days). In humans at least 2-3 weeks and 1 year old.


Stages of Rabies Disease

Travel rabies disease in dogs and cats were divided into 3 phases (phase).

1. Phase Prodormal → Animals looking for a cool and aloof, but can become more aggressive and nerve, extend pupils and rigid posture (tense). This phase lasts for 1-3 days. After phase continued Prodormal Excitation or normal phase directly to phase Paralisa.

2. Phase Excitation → Animals become malignant and attack whoever is around and eat things weird. Next the eye becomes cloudy and is always open and trembling, into the next phase Paralisa.

3. Phase Paralisa → Animals paralysis in all parts of the body and ends with death.


Disease Signs Rabies In Animals And Humans

In dogs and cats, rabies disease can be divided into 2 forms, namely forms of silence (Dumb rabies) and malignant forms (Furious rabies).


The signs of rabies still form:

► There was a paralysis in all parts of the body.

► Animals can not chew and swallow food, the lower jaw can not clenched and excessive dripping saliva.

► There is no desire to attack or bite. Animals will die within a few hours.

The signs of malignant forms of rabies:

► Animals become aggressive and no longer know the owner.

► Attacking people, animals, and objects moving.

► When standing his stiff, tail between his legs folded behind her.

► The dog became more frisky and love to play, but will bite when held and will become malignant in a few hours.

Signs of Rabies in Humans:

► Fear of a very in water, and sensitive to light, air, and sound.

► Tears and saliva out excess.

►Pupils dilated eyes.

► Talk not karuan, always wanted to move and seemed in pain.

► Further marked by convulsions and paralysis and finally death.


Actions Against the Biting Animal

Dogs, cats and monkeys that bite humans or other animals should be suspected of suffering from rabies. Our attitude towards animals should be taken the following actions:

► If the animal is a pet or an owner, the animal must be captured and handed over to the local Animal Husbandry Department for observation for 14 days. If negative observations the animal's rabies should receive rabies vaccinations prior to be returned to its owner.

► If the biting animal is wild animals (no owner) then the animal was captured alive should be sought and submitted to the local Animal Husbandry Department for observation and after the period of observation over the animal may be destroyed or kept by people who wish, after previously given a rabies vaccination .

► If the animal is biting hard to catch and had to be killed, then the head of these animals must be taken and immediately transferred to the local Animal Husbandry Department for laboratory examination.


Action Against Those Who Bitten (Victim)

1. Immediately wash the bite wound with clean water and soap or detergent for 5 to 10 minutes then rinse with running water, then dry with a clean cloth or tissue paper.

2. The wound then was given a wound that is available (eg iodine) and wrapped loosely with a clean bandage.

3. Patient or the victim immediately taken to the health center or the nearest hospital for further treatment.


Action Against Dogs, cats, or monkeys Yang Maintained

1. Placing a pet in the cage a good and appropriate, and always consider the cleanliness of the cage and surroundings.

2. Keeping a pet's health by providing good food, good maintenance and carry out regular rabies vaccination every year to the Department of Animal Husbandry or Veterinary Practice.

3. Put the chain on the dog's neck when the dog is not being invited to dikandangkan or a walk.

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Assist officers in suppressing the number of wild animals in your residence. And are alert to any animal which has characteristics of rabies.

Cockroach Danger to your Health !!

I'm will be sharing short article of about the danger of animals on our health. On this occasion I will discuss about the animal that is considered normal in each of your home. Hmm ... Cockroaches are often found at the corner of a corner residential housing does not care about the lower class and even luxury housing.

When we observe, usually the corner of the house is part of the animal preferred by this because there are many foods that can be enjoyed both nesting place. To eradicate cockroaches, follow these articles more ↓ ☺

Different kinds of different habitats Cockroaches
Type of cockroach species are distinguished on the basis of the cockroach's body. In parts of Indonesia there are several kinds of cockroaches, but the type commonly found in the housing there are only 2 of American cockroach / American cockroach (periplaneta Americana) and the German cockroach / Germany cockroach (Blattela germanica).

Habitat This cockroach two different types, namely the American Cockroaches often are in place and the warm moist Septictank or channels such as sanitary and in general this type of cockroach happy outside the house.

While German cockroach happy to be in the house especially in the damp, dark and many foods such as kitchen, pantry, or on the ceiling of the house. In morphology, significant differences between the two types of cockroaches are there in line at the German cockroach pronothumnya which has no brown lines.


Cause of cockroaches into the house
When our house sanitation is not good then the cockroaches will be glad to go, especially if there is a way for roaches to enter into the house, and the cockroach population in excess habitat. If the population in excess native habitat, the cockroaches will come out of the nest to find food sources and the new nest.

For example, the American Cockroach, when the population grows in Septictank and reduced the available food, then they will go out of their habitat to find food and find a new nest. He will be going into the house through the sewer that is not closed properly, and of course you can imagine the consequences if these animals descend your food.


Know Where All favored cockroach.

In general, there are 3 main sources of cockroach that is preferred by the food, the scattered remnants of food and damp places.

You can easily identify whether a home has not entered into a cockroach by looking at such signs of cockroach droppings, odor, or eggs. Usually this dirt dirt left on the hidden places such as in the books are put on the shelf, the gap between the closet with a bed or wall, or also in the toilet.

If found signs of cockroach, then immediately do the handling. Ie by going directly to the place where cockroaches favor of them is the kitchen. The kitchen was the most preferred by these animals. Therefore, you should keep these foods well as storing food on the shelves or closed containers. When you are finished cooking, try not to leave leftovers on the kitchen floor or the kitchen table. Immediately clean up the scattered remnants of food because this is one of the scattered food for cockroaches.

Besides food scattered on the floor, junk food in the kitchen trash is also a favored place cockroaches, try to quickly dump it in the trash outside the home and closing the bin.


Cockroach Control Habitat.
If cockroaches are nesting in your house, then you need to find the source of its habitat. Habitat American cockroaches will usually be found in pipeline septictank.Untuk sanitation and you need pesticides to eradicate both liquid and powder.

You can eliminate habitat for cockroaches to spray the hole channel or conduit sanitation disposal. You can also use the fumigation.

But you need to remember that eradicating animal diseases known to carry the source is done by gradually, because at the time of spraying or fogging is the first animal to escape and reproduce.


Let`us fight all the cockroaches in our home starting now !!! and let us live a healthy life without interference from animals that may interfere with our health.... ♥