The rainy season brings cool, wet weather, which can be refreshing but also brings common diseases. Here are a few illnesses that often occur during this time:
Cold and Flu: Rain and dampness make it easier to catch a cold or flu. Symptoms include a runny nose, cough, fever, and feeling tired.
Malaria: Mosquitoes that spread malaria breed in stagnant water, which is common during the rainy season. Malaria causes high fever, chills, and headaches.
Dengue Fever: Spread by mosquitoes, dengue fever can cause high fever, severe headaches, joint and muscle pain, and skin rashes.
Diarrhea: Drinking contaminated water or eating food exposed to dirty water can lead to diarrhea, causing frequent, watery bowel movements and dehydration.
Leptospirosis: This disease is caused by bacteria found in water contaminated by animal urine. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle pain, and sometimes more serious problems.
Tips to Stay Healthy
To stay healthy during the rainy season, follow these tips:
Drink clean, boiled, or filtered water.
Avoid getting wet in the rain.
Use mosquito repellent and sleep under a mosquito net.
Keep your surroundings clean and free from stagnant water where mosquitoes can breed.
By following these simple steps, you can enjoy the rainy season while staying safe and healthy.
There's not a lot that can freak me out in this world.
Only large animals with sharp claws, too many people touching me, bullies, hives, horror movies, sitting underneath fans or lights or anything that dangles from a ceiling, glass or wooden bridges, my mother, mosquitoes, public situations, taking a shower with nobody in the house, taking a shower with too many people in the house and crocks. Oh, and zombies. Zombies is definitely on that list.
It's almost a shame too, that I have to race through a city packed full of them to find my missing family. Packed full of zombies, by the way, not crocks. (Although I don't know which situation is worse.)
Now I have to not only keep my feeble body alive, but also protect (or be protected by) my two best friends in the entire world as we all try to survive in a city packed with the Dead.