The Morbilli Virus

It has been more than 2 weeks that I didn”t write any new post for the blog. The first reason is I was on duty for the last 2 weeks. You know that when I was working on site, the internet connection was not good at all. It took more than 2o minutes to open the email, you can imagine that. The second one, which is the worst, is that I was hospitalized for a week. It was the first experience for me to be hospitalized. I will tell you the story here.

I arrived on site on Thursday. Since the first day I was there, there was one of my friend who has a fever. He came to the office every day, and I met him for two days, Thursday and Friday. He is a trainee for safety supervisor on site. I told him that if he has a fever, he should rest on his bed. I never thought that it was a contagious disease.

At the third day, Saturday, I didn’t met him, he rested in his room all day long. I had a meeting and a presentation on that day, the morning was OK for me. The office hour finished at 5 pm, and we usually do some sport every Saturday. But when the sport hour came, I felt that my body was not very fit. I felt that my body temperature started to increase. And finally, I couldn’t sleep since the fever was quite high. When I woke up in the morning, I saw small red spots on my skin. “My God, I have a dengue fever”, I talked to myself at that time.

The doctor did a quick check on me, and he concluded that it was the morbilli virus that attacked me. I was directly evacuated to the nearest city, Balikpapan, to be hospitalized. I was going to go home when I knew that I had to be evacuated. But when I called my wife, she told me that I couldn’t go home since the virus could be really dangerous for her pregnancy. So, as I told you, I was finally evacuated to the hospital. In the end, there were 6 person who had the same disease with me and four of them was evacuated to the hospital.

I was treated in the hospital for a week, in an isolation room. Do you pay attention to the name of the room? It was an “Isolation Room”. I can imagine that  every people who saw me in that room would think that I had a bird flu. Well yes, however, Morbilli is a contagious disease too.

The lesson learned from the story is that Morbilli is a very contagious. You can imagine, I met the infected guy only for 2 days, perhaps it was only 10 minutes per day, but I got infected immediately. The virus enters the body via respiratory system, multiplies there and circulates in the blood, so it spread very rapidly.

You have to ensure that you give the proper immunization for your children. The immunization by injection has proven effective to give long term, probably lifetime immunity.

The last lesson learned is that you need to maintain your body at optimum condition. It will give you more opportunity to avoid any virus and disease that may attack your body. Choose healthy food and nutrition, have enough time to sleep and avoid stress are the key to your healthy life.