Recommendation was made Director General of Communicable Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2M & PL) Ministry of Health (MOH), Prof. Dr. Umar Fahmi Achmadi MPH dr.
This was expressed relating to the preaching of several newspapers. Mentioned, after a working meeting with the Regional Representatives Council (DPRD) of DKI Jakarta on Wednesday, the head of the Jakarta Animal Husbandry Department Edy Setiarto instansinya survey results reveal the number of slaughter houses, among others, in Tanah Abang, Mampang, and Pulo Gadung. Of the 500 goats sampled, said Edy, 42 percent infected with Toxoplasma. Goats submissions from outside Jakarta, thus there is the possibility of meat goats in other areas is also contaminated with Toxoplasma.
According to Umar, toxoplasmosis is a growing problem in public health. It happened because of changes in behavior and urbanization.
Make the city more dense urbanization. At the community who liked to keep animals such as dogs, cats, and birds, potential exposure to sewage-contaminated animal parasites bigger. Therefore, the incidence of toxoplasma in larger cities than in rural areas.
"Genesis Toxoplasma not only in Jakarta, but also in major cities in the United States (U.S.), India, Singapore, Tokyo, and so forth," said Umar.
The change happened on the way to consume meat. If it had been cooked like rendang, ungkep, or Pepes, because of the influence of the west are now consumed in the form of steaks that are often not cooked.
Transmission mode
Toksopasma grow in the intestines of animals such as cats, dogs, birds, and pigs, and then spread through the feces. If the dirt on the grass or leaves, and eaten by other animals such as cows or goats, the meat will be contaminated with Toxoplasma. Transmission to humans occurs when the animal's meat or milk is consumed without cooked.
Other modes of transmission is that if sewage ending up in a cat or dog hair, then caressed her fingers humans or carried by the wind and contaminate human food --- will be infected. How to prevent it is to maintain environmental hygiene, and wash hands before eating or processing food.
Transmission can also occur through the placenta from mother to fetus. As a result, the fetus could be killed or birth defects suffered hydrocephalus (accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the skull so that the enlarged head).
According to Umar, the prevalence of Toxoplasma in Indonesia ranges from 20-30 percent in the number of seropositive population in the survey. Seropositive means, in the blood of people who have researched the sign never been exposed to parasites, but showed no clinical symptoms of aliases the person is not showing signs of illness.
Serological survey conducted P2M & PL in certain areas in West Java and Central Java in 1996 showed, respectively 25.6 percent and 23 percent seropositive. Was a survey of animals in the West shows, 13.1 percent seropositive.
Part Mata School of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Faculty of medicine) reported that during 1992-1995 there were 31 cases choriorentitis or toxoplasmosis of the eye. Laboratory examination was Makmal Integrated Immunoendokrinologi FKUI during 1999 in patients who have recurrent miscarriages and infertility issues indicates, 60 percent positive for toxoplasmosis.
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