Infectious disease-related pathogens and their prevention and control strategies after earthquakes / 第二军医大学学报
Academic Journal of Second Military Medical University
;
(12): 590-593, 2010.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-840837
ABSTRACT
Epidemic diseases often occur following natural disasters, such as earthquakes. The most commonly seen epidemics after an earthquake include enteric diseases (dysentery, typoid and paratypoid fever, cholera, hand foot-mouth disease, hepatitis A, hepatitis E, etc), arthropod-borne infectious diseases (malaria, Kala-Azar, Japanese encephalitis, etc), zoonosis (plague, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, anthrax, etc), soil and epidemic water transmitted diseases (tetanus, gas gangrene, leptospirosis, etc), respiratory diseases (measles, rubella, influenza, etc), food-borne diseases (food poisoning caused by bacteria or bacterial toxin). This article reviews the controlling principles and measures for major infectious pathogens and epidemic diseases after earthquake.
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Academic Journal of Second Military Medical University
Year:
2010
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