Diseases During the Rainy Season
High level of rainfall during this entire time raises the threat of infectious diseases. People must be aware of to anticipate and prevent the spread of the disease. People should be wary about the threat of diseases that are thrives in the rainy season like diarrhea, dengue fever, and leptospirosis. The prevalence of those diseases, usually will increase along with the potential of flood.
In the rainy season with high rainfall then increases the potential for flooding. During the floods, the sources of drinking water especially drinking water sources from shallow wells will become contaminated. Usually happen also that increase in the brood of mosquitoes Aides aegypti which is a mosquito that can cause of dengue fever.
If the flooding occurs, leptospirosis also should be wary because the pool of water will make the rats that lives in the soil holes would come out and spread the disease. Those rats will be hanging around with the human where their feces and urine would mix with the flood. A person who has wounds, then he’s playing and soak in the floods that is already contaminated with rat droppings or urine that are containing lepstopira bacteria.
Anticipate that with a Healthy Life, people do anticipated by adopting healthier lifestyle habits such as washing hands with soap each time when they have to eat or drink and after defecate, get used to boiled the drinking water every day, and keep the environment clean, avoid the piles of rubbish around the house. Once the rainy season is come then we are already prepare to anticipate the possibility of increasing of some infectious diseases.
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