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MOSQUITO-REPELLANT CLOTHES

Shoo mosquitoes! Yes, your babies will now be spared from mosquito bites with the
innovative technology of mosquito-repellant baby clothes developed by the
Philippine Textile Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology.

This is one of the development initiatives of the textile institute under the Smart
Textiles program to address the need to provide products that will directly benefit the
people. The technology is showcased in the Science, Technology and Innovation @
Home cluster at the National Science and Technology Week held on July 17-21,
2018 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.

Other textile-related technologies shown during the exhibits were the use of natural
dyes, tropic fabrics, and the therapeutic hand loom for physically challenged
individuals and senior citizens.

THE MOSQUITO MENACE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Mosquitoes can transmit many infectious diseases that are caused by a variety of
microorganisms to people, but these diseases are mostly confined to
certain geographical areas. In the Philippines, the mosquito-borne diseases include
dengue, Chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, malaria, and filariasis. Dengue,
chikungunya, and Japanese encephalitis are caused by viruses
while malaria and filariasis are caused by parasites.
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Dengue and Chikungunya

Dengue and chikungunya have things in common. They are both caused by RNA
viruses, albeit from different families. Also, they are transmitted by the same
mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Furthermore, their signs and
symptoms, which appear three to seven days after a bite from an infected
mosquito, are similar—high grade fever, joint pain, joint swelling, rash, headache,
muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. The two diseases differ, however, in
that Chikungunya is generally more benign than dengue (serious complications and
fatalities occur rarely), although the joint pains that it produces are often more severe
and incapacitating.

Japanese Encephalitis

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is caused by the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV)

whose most important vectors are the
mosquitoes Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Culex vishnui.

The vast majority of JEV infections are asymptomatic. Symptoms, if they occur,
appear five to 15 days after the bite of an infected mosquito. They are flu-like and
include headaches, fever, and fatigue and in children, nausea, vomiting, and
abdominal pain. Although generally benign, one in 250 patients infected by
JEV develop encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), which can be fatal, especially
in children. Lifelong neurological defects such as deafness,
emotionalliability, and hemi paresis may occur in those who survive the encephalitis.

Malaria

Malaria is a serious disease that is still a major public health problem in the
Philippines, although the number of reported cases has been decreasing since
1990 because of the anti-malarial program of the government.

Malaria is caused by a parasite, a protozoon (i.e., a single-celled organism) that

belongs to the genus plasmodium. There are four known species of this genus that
cause disease in man—Plasmodium falciparum, P.vivax, P.ovale, and P. malariae—
all are present in the Philippines.The parasites are transmitted to people through the
bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.

Malaria is present or endemic in all provinces of our country, except Cebu,

Leyte, and Catanduanes, but most cases occur in rural areas, especially in forested,
swampy, hilly, and mountainous regions—the preferred habitat of the
mosquito vector.

The typical presentation of malaria is high grade fever that periodically recurs
every after two to three days. The fever is preceded by several hours of
chills and, as the fever subsides, the patient experiences marked sweating.
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Malaria patients sooner or later develop anemia, but the more dreadful and
sometimes fatal complications of the disease are kidney and liver failure, and
cerebral malaria.

Filariasis

The causative agent of filarias is in the Philippines are two microscopic, thread-
like roundworms: Wuchereriabancrofti (the more prevalent one)
and Brugiamalayi. The former is transmitted by several species of Aedes, Culex, and
Anopheles mosquitoes while the latter by at least two species of the Mansonia
mosquito.

Repeated mosquito bites over several months to years are needed to get
filariasis. Most people with filaria worms stay asymptomatic, but a small percentage
will develop a condition called elepanthiasis, in which the limbs, genital organs, and
the breasts swell to monstrous proportions.

According to our Department of Health (DOH), filariasis is endemic in 44 provinces in

the Philippines but most cases occur in the rural areas of Bicol, Quezon, Mindoro,
Masbate, Mindanao, Palawan, Agusan, and the Mountain
Province. Also, seven provinces have reached elimination level already, namely:
Southern Leyte, Sorsogon, Biliran, Bukidnon, Romblon, Agusandel Sur, and Dinagat
Island.

Malaria and other vector borne and parasitic diseases (MVP)

WHO estimates that malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease, affect 216 million
people across the world and kills about 655 000 each year.

In the Philippines, malaria is one of the major mosquito-borne diseases affecting 14

million people who live mostly in mountainous, hard to reach areas of the country
where basic health services are relatively inaccessible.

The MVP situation in the Philippines

 57 of 80 provinces are malaria endemic , and 14 million population at risk

 the endemic provinces for neglected tropical diseases are the poorest of the poor.
 the parasitic diseases cause chronic disabilities and deformities which hamper
children's growth
 about 645 232 persons are already infected with lymphatic filariasis
Reference: World Health Organization