Hunting is a Burgundian activity and so dinner afterwards, and especially with the wine, is not immediately good for your health.
But here we want to highlight health during the hunt itself. Health, or at least the dangers, when hunting can be split into 2 groups:
Zoonones are diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans. Below we discuss the main ones, with serious, sometimes even fatal consequences.
Is a viral disease, transmitted by bites from foxes, dogs, cats, bats etc., sometimes through a simple lick!. The animal itself sometimes has no symptoms! (Flanders has been rabies-free for decades).
The incubation period (the time before one becomes ill) is between 2 weeks and 2 months, rarely longer. This depends on the bite site: the further from the brain, the longer the time of the symptoms.
Symptoms: Onset of the disease : fever, unwell, headache, sore throat and tingling, pain, itching at the site of the bite. Later jittery, irritable, and muscle pains with contractures. The brain is affected. Coma. This leads to more than 99% of death.
Prevention : vaccination before leaving for risk areas, 3 vaccines in a month, repeats later. Abroad (also Germany for example), do not touch animals, not even pet. Stay away from foxes and bats.
Against rabies: vaccinate all hunters and all pets?
Treatment: there are no pills against it.
In case of a suspicious bite, quickly administer vaccine and immunoglobulins (antibodies)! Vaccine and antibodies not always available abroad!
Beige worm with many small segments that grow from behind the head. Attaches to the intestinal wall of animals. The droppings are full of eggs. When humans come into contact with these faeces, whether eaten or other, the eggs implant in various organs, especially the liver, also lungs, brains, etc. There they cause cysts, cavities. This process can take months or years.
Symptoms : flu-like sensation, enlarged liver, abdominal pain, jaundice, shortage of vitamins, minerals, red rash, swelling and itching. Evolution leads to death.
Prevention: Beware of low berry bushes, mushrooms, nettle (soup). Disposable gloves for handling foxes, put them directly in a plastic bag. Certainly not on the tableau.
Treatment: pills and surgery of the organs!
Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by tick bites in Europe. Borrelia is a bacterium that is transmitted by ticks. Several variants known. The tick is found in body cavities of rodents (cats, mice, ..) and Cervidae (deer, roe deer). Lyme could even be transmitted through transfusions and from mother to fetus!
Symptoms: development in stages – red ring rash, pale in the middle, appears after 4 days to 3 months! 4 cm-40 cm diameter. Fluy. Diagnosis is based on the clinical picture, the red ring, and a blood sample. Be careful, sometimes blood negative, still sick; Sometimes blood positive, not sick, so the clinical picture is important!
The bacterium enters the bloodstream: brain injuries (double vision, facial paralysis, deafness, concentration, loss, memory disorders, paralysis of all kinds), inflamed heart muscle. Also joint involvement: pain, swelling, especially the knee. In the chronic phase: brain lesions, usually after 1 year or more. In critical cases: death.
Prevention: protect your body even if it is hot. Examine your body. A tick must be removed COMPLETELY (even the smallest leg), do not use any products, if in doubt, go to your doctor. In case of a suspicious red ring, be sure to consult a doctor.
Treatment: 3 weeks of antibiotics and follow-up by a doctor.
Further information:
In short, prevention of insect stings during hunting is not unimportant, especially in endemic areas.
These are the harmful influences due to physical, chemical, microbiological influences such as:
Noise is a sneak. One gets used to it.
If your hearing is impaired, you are less able to follow a conversation, ringing in the ears, hypersensitivity to sounds, dizziness, always consult your doctor! One loud bang can mean loss.
Prevention: Sport shooters, clay pigeon shooters and others Is an underestimated problem of our sport! Purchase your custom-made earplugs.
Below are a number of leaflets about a number of disturbers of the peace in nature:
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