The most infectious diseases in the tropics

Organizing a trip to a tropical country, it is worth taking care of a lot. Baggage, summer clothes, hotel, excursion planning and much more. However, to travel to tropical countries, you also need to make medical insurance. It is needed not so much as a guarantor that a tourist will receive qualified assistance. Its purpose is rather indirect: in order to arrange insurance, vaccination is required. Moreover, the introduction of the vaccine will protect against the most dangerous infectious diseases included in the list of TOP 4.

Cholera

Cholera is the only focal infection whose epidemic outbreaks occur both in tropical states and in civilized countries. High ability to infect, severe symptoms and rapid dehydration - all this makes cholera one of the most dangerous pathologies of the tropics. And you can catch it anywhere, where there is water. For this, it is enough for the pathogen to enter the stomach and advance into the large intestine.

Tropical malaria

This pathology is included in the list of dangerous infections due to the fact that until now no methods for complete elimination of the pathogen have been found. And the disease is dangerous because it is transmitted by mosquitoes. Their bites are not always possible to notice, especially at night during sleep.

As a result - infection of a person, which is accompanied by periodic temperature rises. In the process of treatment, there is a great risk that the infected will die due to intoxication and multiple organ failure.

Plague

Despite the fact that epidemics of the plague have not existed for a long time, this pathology is very dangerous because of the rapid current. When oral contamination during drinking water develops an intestinal form, which is characterized by rapid loss of water and heavy intestinal bleeding. Pathology quickly weakens the human body, leading to death even before flying home. It is also possible that a patient with a latent form of plague will return home, where he will infect the entire family.

Trypanosomiasis

Sleep disorder, common in Africa, is an absolutely lethal disease, which must be treated at the beginning of its development. However, this is almost always excluded, because the symptoms do not develop within six months from the moment of the bite of the Tse-tsa fly. Only after 6-12 months there are problems with sleep, neurological disorders are observed. Later, pathology leads to coma and death.