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– city’s insanitary state perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes transmitting parasiteBy Sharmain GraingerSuperstitious beliefs have been one of the primary reasons some persons do not adhere to medical treatment. Moreover, it is not at all unfamiliar when workers attached to the Ministry of Health’s Mass Drug Administration (MDA) project hear remarks such as “somebody do meh” when persons are found with the symptoms of lymphatic filariasis.Nurse Faye Jones (at left) and Rohan Sagar display the filariasis drugs administered to target communities. A brochure is also given to persons to read more about the disease.Lymphatic filariasis, which is sometimes simply referred to as filiariasis or elephantiasis, is in fact a vector transmitted parasite that can severely affect the human body. In fact according to Coordinator of the MDA Project, Rohan Sagar, when the parasite multiples in the body it causes some clinical symptoms resulting in physical disfigurement, complemented by excruciating pain.According to Sagar, filiariasis in its manifested form causes lumphedema, which is popularly known as “big foot” and hydrocele which persons simply call “godee”.? And there are instances,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Sagaris noted, that limbs and the breasts are affected as well.He disclosed that the condition is one that is highly stigamtised. “Persons who have this disease are (sometimes) socially excluded; some are even tantalised on the road…it could be an economic burden to the family because this condition could cause persons – productive member of the family,Cheap NBA Jerseys Wholesale, the breadwinner – to have to stay at home,” according to Sagar.In fact, according to Supervisor of the MDA Project,Cheap Baseball Jerseys, Nurse Faye Jones, this state of affairs has even caused some families to break-up.? She disclosed that some individuals are so bent on refusing the condition as a disease that can be medically treated that they opt to fervently embrace a superstitious standpoint.? “One woman, with ‘big-foot, said that because she “get do” she had to dry frog and rub it on her foot….,” confided Nurse Jones.And then there are cases where men with hydrocele prefer to insist that “‘I strain myself lifting weights’…and some even try to convince you that it is a hernia,” Sagar divulged during an interview with this publication.A simple mosquito bite can transmit the disease.According to him, although hydrocele can be surgically removed, unless persons are treated for filariasis, it is likely to reoccur.In the quest to reduce, if not eradicate the disease, the MDA Project a few years ago embarked on a DEC Tablet distribution mission to target persons living at risk of contracting filariasis.? Formerly the use of DEC salt was encouraged to fight the disease.According to Sagar the project, which officially commenced in 2012, was in fact the off-shoot of a discussion between the Government of Guyana and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) about the rehabilitation of the Georgetown sewerage system network. During that conversation, Sagar intimated that the nexus between sanitation and health was amplified. It was noted then that “the city’s sanitation was a perfect reservoir or breeding site for mosquitoes and these specific species are known to transmit filariasis,” noted Sagar.There are currently three known vectors – Aedes aegypti, Culex and Anopheles – in Guyana that can transmit the disease.? And according to Sagar while these vectors are known to mostly thrive in the hinterland Regions, there is evidence to suggest that at least the Culex is present on the Coastland.Lumphedema (big-foot) a symptom of filariasis10Moreover, the IDB agreed to grant the Government a loan to fund the rehabilitation of the sewerage system, complete with a component to interrupt and reduce the presence of vectors capable of transmitting the filiariasis parasite within Region Four.Following the agreement, a baseline study was done in March of 2012 to ascertain the prevalence of the disease in the Region, and according to Sagar, two communities – Lodge, Georgetown, and Melanie, East Coast Demerara – were chosen. Lodge, he noted though,China Jerseys, has historically had high incidences of filariasis.Between the two communities, close to 1,000 individuals were tested and it was discovered that at least four per cent of that target population had the filiariasis parasite. This of course amplified the need for treatment to commence forthwith, since based on the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO), only a one per cent or less prevalence is acceptable.And so an initial phase of the MDA project was officially fast-tracked in November 2012 and concluded in July 2013. This, according to Sagar, saw MDA workers being