Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus or LCMV is a pathogen that infects people at large and can spread quite easily with the help of rodents like your House Mouse or Field Mice. This virus is responsible for causing considerable number of neurological diseases which include encephalitis, meningitis, and neurological birth disorders and sometimes even neurologists fail to understand or anticipate the virus. This virus comes from the group of are naviridae family of viruses. Similar to all arenaviruses, the LCMV uses rodents to germinate and spread. LCMV virus is carried and shed in large quantities by rodents like mice and hamsters and it is passed over generation to generation. The disease may be without any signs or symptoms and the virus is mostly found in the urine, feces, and saliva and nasal secretions of rodents that they carry the virus throughout their lives. You should call BBPP, most effective mice control services Thornhill and exterminate rodents from your home and eliminate the chance of the virus infecting you.
How you acquire LCMV?
We, human can contract these deadly diseases through direct contact with rodents or inhaling dust particles of dried mice urine, dusty feces, and dried nasal secretions postnatal. Woman can contract the virus during pregnancy. When women are having maternal viremia they can pass the virus to fetus. The virus can also be acquired during organ transplantation.
Diagnosis
Detection of the congenital LCMV with children is generally poor. Mortality rate for children with 21 months of age is only 35%. If some of them manage to survive may have neuro developmental problems which include poor somatic growth, vision impairment, microcephaly, spastic weakness, severe seizure disorders and mental retardation. However the severity of the infection may not be uniform with all children. Some of the children may only experience moderate neurological and mental handicaps. In these children hearing is spared by the virus though. This is something you may not like your children to have, however you can prevent such things happening by removing the mice infestation in your home.
How to treat LCMV?
In fact no concrete antiviral therapy has been developed for this disease however medicines like Ribavirin has produced mixed results in children with severe infections. These are strictly off the label use and on consumption can cause considerable toxicity. However favipiravir, an anti-viral compound has been found effective against RNA viruses. The medicine also produces little cellular toxicity in the patient. However the medicine is are not complete and sure result oriented thus will prove incomprehensive. Only way you can escape from this virus is to prevent mice from camping in your house.
Prevention
There is no definite vaccine to prevent LCMV, but you can take substantial steps to reduce the risk. Congenitally acquired LCMV will not happen with women unless she has acquired to while she was pregnant. Women can minimize the risk by limiting their exposure to the mice secretions and excretion. This can be done by taking precautionary measures such as avoiding contact with infected mice or pet hamsters. People who are working in pathological labs have the risk of infection because they are exposed to rodent experiments. Pregnant women working in pathological labs and animal care facilities should be more careful and reduce or avoid exposure.
The bottom line is this strange sounding infection can be avoided only by removing mice infestation in your home. it is advised to remove the root cause such as asking BBPP, the best pest control service Thornhill, to remove the infestation. No mice infestation so no infection. Contact the pest control on phone number 647-910-6315 or by sending mail to info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.