Title of Poster Leptospirosis UBD
Authors |
1 st |
: Gisela Winata |
2 nd |
: Tizander Mayvians |
3 rd |
: Thurain Leo |
4 th |
: Edward Edwin |
Name of University Universitas Tarumanagara
Background Climate change can be defined as a long-term change in the statistical of weather patterns includes temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind, and seasons as a result of the increase in average global temperature that last of extended period of time. And as we all know, Indonesia is best known for its raining season, in which flood is one of the common result to show the effect of raining season. Leptospirosis is, one of the illness that might happened due to flood, a worldwide zoonotic infection with a much greater incidence in tropical regions and has now been identified as one of the emerging infectious diseases. Leptospirosis is caused by pathogenic spirochetes of the genus Leptospira, which is transferred to human by rats. As one of the illness that might happen due to flood, Leptospirosis also shows some signs and symptoms( example: fever, dry cough, diarrhea). According to Indonesian Health Department, untill November 2014, there were around 435 recorded cases of leptospirosis with 62 of them are death cases. In conclusion, the reason why we choose leptospirosis as our main theme is because as one of the tropical country, there are still many people who are not aware of the signs and symptoms of Leptospirosis while they are risking their life with their own behaviour towards flood.
Objectives We want to emphasize people’ s awareness to flood as an effect to climate change in order to prevent Leptospirosis.
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