For bacillary dysentery the recommended drug is norfloxacin or ciprofloxacin. In case of severe bloody diarrhoea, a blood transfusion may be required. Next This infection is also known as Hydatid Disease and is related to tapeworms . It doesn't pose a great threat to the traveller but the disease seems to be on the increase. The incubation period varies from several months to five or even twenty years.
Symptoms are often absent.
In case of liver cysts the victim may complain of abdominal pains and suffer from nausea and vomiting. In case of lung cysts the patient may cough, be short of breath or spit blood. If a liver cyst bursts open, pain, fever and eventually death may occur. If a lung cyst ruptures, an abscess or acute pneumonia will be the result. Drink only bottled drinks.