te er meats, pe olives. with conSuspected clinical s, vomit toms refof vision, atation of eme musshould be kin intra polyvalent ous food sufficient e cooking ked foods. 3. mmunization-None. 4. Quarantine-None. 5. Concurrent disinfectio lesions. 6. Terminal disinfection (B) General measures-None. REG. 11. Cholera, Asiatic.— 1. Infective agent: Vibrio cholerae. 2. Source of infection: Bowel discharg feces of convalescent or healthy c be found to be carriers. 3. Mode of transmission: By food and contact with infected persons, car discharges; by flies. 4. Incubation period: One to five days, if the healthy carrier stage, before 5. Period of communicability: Usually infectious organism is absent from 6. Methods of control: (A) The infected individual a 1. Recognition of the di bacteriological exar 2. Isolation of patient in 3. Immunization-None. 4. Quarantine-Contacts longer if stools are 5. Concurrent disinfecti of the stools and v and in connection w 6. Terminal disinfectionisolated should be th and his environment e disease-By clinical symptoms with conacteriological examination of discharges. State bacteriologist. m 21 days, or until two negative cultures successive days, after the fourteenth day. arriers must remain at home and apart ren until the virulence test shows them to for others. Adult carriers, who take reaons against transferring excretions of the to others, may be permitted to go about vided, That they are forbidden to handle to engage in any occupation which brings e contact with children. Isolation may be y case if persistent diphtheria bacilli prove rd. posed persons, not known to be immune, to unized by antitoxin. dren exposed until shown by bacteriological to be carriers. ction of all articles which have been in con. tient and all articles soiled by discharges , including urine. Use method advised in ion-At the end of the illness, airing and ck room, with thorough cleansing. milk supply. Schick test to all contacts and immuniza- with conscharges. cultures nth day. d apart them to cake rea s of the go about o handle ch brings ■may be illi prove mune, to riological en in conischarges dvised in ring and mmuniza disinfected and qua which permission ma provided throat cult 3. Heads of families and and be permitted t provided they do not patient. 4. Remember that nearly reality laryngeal dip REG. 13. Dysentery (bacillary)— 1. Infective agent: Bacillus dysenteriae 2. Source of infection: The bowel discha 3. Mode of transmission: By drinking foods, and by hand-to-mouth tran soiled with discharges of an infecte 4. Incubation period: Two to seven days 5. Period of communiciability: During until the organism is absent from tl 6. Methods of control: (A) The infected individual and I 1. Recognition of the dis serological and bacte Flexner serum. 2. Isolation-Infected ind riod of the disease. 3. Immunization-Vaccine to severe reactions t be made compulsory 4. Quarantine-None. |