Number of Patients with filariasis Still High

Patients with elephantiasis, or filariasis in West Java to November 2008 reached 420 people. They are scattered in 254 villages and 140 sub-districts and villages in 24 districts and cities. Poor environmental sanitation is a major cause of filariasis.

According to the Head of Sub Office of Environmental Health West Java Provincial Health Office, Fita Rosemary, Thursday (18/12), filariasis is an infectious disease caused by Filaria worms and transmitted by mosquitoes. The main drivers are still the lack of sanitation, healthy society. It opens up the opportunity to breed mosquitoes. The only spread through mosquito bites an elephant foot. "Filariasis causes permanent disability, social stigma, psychological barriers, and economic losses," he said.

Fita said, there are currently nine filariasis-endemic areas in West Java. Diantaranta Bekasi, Bekasi, Bogor and Tasikmalaya regency. Data as of November 2008, the largest number of sufferers is on as many as 69 people Bekasi Regency and the City of Bekasi with 39 people. Furthermore, Tasikmalaya regency (37), Bogor Regency (35), and Regency Brass (25). "But the discovery of many cases is not out increasingly active and growing field monitors pahamnya people with elephantiasis," he said.

Therefore, the West Java Health Office looked at this disease is one that needs to be given full attention. To target mass treatment, for example. From only 1.34 million people in 2007 rose to 6.14 million by the year 2008.

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