Healthy Life Journal

Diseases transmitted to humans many animals. From their viruses often come from. There is one that is still rarely known, said it came from bats.

Outbreaks of disease in humans by the virus from animals to the front of the increasingly threatening. This was revealed by the Program Coordinator, Ecology of Emerging Infectious Diseases of the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries Queensland, Australia Dr Hume Field MACVs MSc BVSc. “It will be more and more cases of virus transmission from animals to humans that threaten the health,” he said.

Virus from these animals one of which is palm virus, which originated from one mammal is a bat. Many developing palm virus in Malaysia and Bangladesh. “This virus is a virus that is naturally present in the body of the bat and does not cause disease in these animals,” said Field.

Field said, in Malaysia, the virus has attacked two people with existing brokers in pig farms. While in Bangladesh only attacked one person, but without the mediation of other animals, directly from bats to humans.

“Case in Malaysia occurred in 1999, while in Bangladesh recently,” said Field.

Virus from animals that have two legs that can develop into wings that transmission can take place from the food chain. If there are bats eat fruit, and bats eat pigs that eventually humans eating pork so that the viruses infect humans. “The people who are infected palm worst, they died,” explained Field.

Basically, there are no bats Malaysia or Indonesia or bat bat Bangladesh, Thailand or Australia. Bats always moving from one place to another. However, their team found that the type of virus in Bangladesh is different from that found in Malaysia.

“We can not say, a virus that attacks the palm in Malaysia comes from a different bat with the attack in Bangladesh,” he said when asked what kind of bats that spread the virus in Malaysia together with the existing species of bats in Bangladesh.

Unlike in Malaysia and Bangladesh, in Australia and Australia also have infectious virus in humans from bats, but does not transmit in pigs, but the horses. “The virus is transmitted in this horse name lyssavirus,” he explained.

According to him, in Australia who was attacked was not a pig but a horse. “There were eight people infected with the virus, five of them died,” he explained.

The case of viruses that can palm off that much happening in Malaysia and Bangladesh, but it never happened in Indonesia. “For this palm virus, the case did not occur in Indonesia,” said Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Dr. I Wayan Teguh Wibawan Drh MS.

However, as an agricultural country there are also many pets, Field Advised to take reasonable precautions. Good for the spread of the virus from bats to palm farm animals or to humans. And to prevent transmission of the virus from animals to humans in general is to avoid building the plant, particularly pig farms, in the area around the forest.

On The Edge of the forest are usually many foraging bats, particularly buahbuahan. “In order to prevent a whole we have to see what’s happening in the environment and the lives of the wild animals, do not let the animals pass the disease in humans,” said Field.