A watan Satumbar 2018 ne, kuma Vandenberg, dan shekara 67, ya dan ji kadan "a karkashin yanayi" na 'yan kwanaki, kamar yana da mura, in ji shi.
Ya samu kumburin kwakwalwa.Ya rasa yadda zai iya karatu da rubutu.Hannunsa da kafafunsa sun yi shuru saboda gurguje.
Ko da yake a wannan lokacin bazara an ga kamuwa da cutar ta farko a cikin shekaru ashirin na wata cuta mai alaka da sauro, zazzabin cizon sauro, cutar ta West Nile da kuma sauro da ke yada ta wanda ya fi damun jami’an kiwon lafiya na tarayya.
Roxanne Connelly, masanin ilimin likitancin likita a Cibiyar Kula da Cututtuka da Cututtuka (CDC), ya ce kwari, nau'in sauro da ake kira Culex, na Cibiyar Kula da Cututtuka da Cututtuka (CDC) “mafi yawan batutuwan da suka shafi halin yanzu a cikin nahiyar. Amurka"
Daminar bana da ba a saba gani ba saboda ruwan sama da narkewar dusar ƙanƙara tare da tsananin zafi ya haifar da yawaitar yawan sauro.
Kuma a cewar masana kimiyya na CDC, waɗannan sauro suna ƙara jurewa ga magungunan kashe qwari da ake samu a yawancin feshin da jama'a ke amfani da su don kashe sauro da kwai.
"Wannan ba alama ce mai kyau ba," in ji Connelly."Muna asarar wasu kayan aikin da muka saba amfani da su don sarrafa sauro da suka kamu."
A Cibiyar Kula da Cututtuka da Cututtuka ta Laboratory a Fort Collins, Colorado, gida ga dubun dubatar sauro, tawagar Connelly ta gano cewa sauro na Culex sun rayu tsawon lokaci bayan kamuwa da maganin kwari.
"Kuna son samfurin da ke rikitar da su, ba ya aikata shi," in ji Connelly, yana nuna kwalban sauro da aka fallasa ga sinadarai.Mutane da yawa har yanzu suna tashi.
Gwaje-gwajen dakin gwaje-gwaje ba su sami juriya ga maganin kashe kwari da mutane ke amfani da su don korar sauro yayin tafiya da sauran ayyukan waje ba.Connelly ya ce suna ci gaba da yin kyau.
Sai dai yayin da kwari ke kara karfi fiye da magungunan kashe kwari, adadinsu na karuwa a wasu sassan kasar.
Ya zuwa shekarar 2023, an sami mutane 69 da suka kamu da cutar ta West Nile da aka ruwaito a Amurka, a cewar Cibiyar Kula da Cututtuka da Cututtuka.Wannan yayi nisa daga rikodin: a cikin 2003, an yi rikodin lokuta 9,862.
Amma bayan shekaru 20, sauro da yawa na nufin babbar damar da mutane za su cije su yi rashin lafiya.Laifukan a Yammacin Kogin Yamma suna yin kololuwa a watan Agusta da Satumba.
"Wannan shine farkon yadda za mu ga West Nile ta fara haɓakawa a Amurka," in ji Dokta Erin Staples, masanin cututtukan cututtuka a Cibiyar Kula da Cututtuka da Cututtuka a Fort Collins."Muna sa ran kararraki za su karu a hankali cikin 'yan makonni masu zuwa.
Misali, tarkon sauro 149 a gundumar Maricopa, Arizona, sun gwada ingancin kwayar cutar West Nile a wannan shekara, idan aka kwatanta da takwas a cikin 2022.
John Townsend, manajan kula da kula da muhalli na gundumar Maricopa, ya ce tsayuwar ruwa daga ruwan sama mai yawa hade da tsananin zafi yana kara ta'azzara lamarin.
Townsend ya ce "Ruwan da ke can ya cika don sauro su sa ƙwai a ciki.""Saro na fitowa da sauri cikin ruwan dumi - a cikin kwanaki uku zuwa hudu, idan aka kwatanta da makonni biyu a cikin ruwan sanyi," in ji shi.
Wani jika da ba a saba gani ba a watan Yuni a gundumar Larimer, Colorado, inda dakin binciken Fort Collins yake, shi ma ya haifar da "yawan yawan sauro da ba a taba ganin irinsa ba" wanda zai iya yada kwayar cutar ta West Nile, in ji Tom Gonzalez, darektan kula da lafiyar jama'a na gundumar.
Alkaluman gundumar sun nuna cewa akwai sauro sau biyar a Yammacin Nil a bana fiye da na bara.
Connelly ya ce ci gaban tattalin arziki a wasu sassan kasar yana da matukar damuwa."Ya bambanta da abin da muka gani a cikin 'yan shekarun da suka gabata."
Tun lokacin da aka fara gano cutar ta West Nile a Amurka a shekarar 1999, ta zama cutar sauro da ta fi yawa a kasar.Staples ya ce dubban mutane ne ke kamuwa da cutar kowace shekara.
West Nile ba a yaɗuwa daga mutum zuwa mutum ta hanyar saduwa ta yau da kullun.Culex sauro ne kawai ke yada kwayar cutar.Wadannan kwari suna kamuwa da cutar ne lokacin da suka ciji tsuntsaye marasa lafiya sannan su yada cutar ga mutane ta wani cizon.
Yawancin mutane ba sa jin komai.A cewar CDC, daya daga cikin mutane biyar suna fama da zazzabi, ciwon kai, ciwon jiki, amai da gudawa.Alamun yawanci suna bayyana kwanaki 3-14 bayan cizon.
Daya daga cikin mutane 150 da suka kamu da kwayar cutar ta West Nile suna fuskantar munanan matsaloli, gami da mutuwa.Kowa na iya yin rashin lafiya mai tsanani, amma Staples ya ce mutane sama da 60 da mutanen da ke da yanayin rashin lafiya suna cikin haɗari mafi girma.
Shekaru biyar bayan an gano shi da West Nile, Vandenberg ya dawo da yawancin iyawarsa ta hanyar jiyya mai zurfi.Duk da haka, kafafunsa sun ci gaba da raguwa, wanda hakan ya tilasta masa ya dogara da sanduna.
Lokacin da Vandenberg ya fadi a safiyar wannan rana a cikin Satumba 2018, yana kan hanyarsa ta zuwa jana'izar wani abokinsa wanda ya mutu sakamakon kamuwa da cutar ta West Nile.
Cutar “na iya zama mai tsananin gaske kuma mutane suna buƙatar sanin hakan.Zai iya canza rayuwar ku, ”in ji shi.
Yayin da juriya ga magungunan kashe qwari na iya karuwa, ƙungiyar Connolly ta gano cewa magungunan gama gari da mutane ke amfani da su a waje har yanzu suna da tasiri.Bisa ga Cibiyar Kula da Cututtuka da Cututtuka (CDC), yana da kyau a yi amfani da magungunan kashe qwari da ke dauke da sinadaran kamar DEET da picaridin.
Lokacin aikawa: Maris 27-2024