RISE-Vac-Co-production of Vaccine Education Materials with Persons Living in Prison
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(13):S56-S61. doi: 10.3201/eid3013.230812.ABSTRACTIncreasing vaccination knowledge is effective in addressing hesitancy and is particularly important in populations deprived of liberty who may not routinely have access to health information, ensuring health equity. RISE-Vac is a European Union-funded project aiming to promote vaccine literacy, offer, and uptake in prisons in Europe. We consulted persons living in prisons in the United Kingdom (through the Prisoner Policy Network), France, and Moldova to determine their vaccination knowledge gaps, the information they would like to receive, and ...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 2, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Femi Laryea-Adekimi Jemima D'Arcy Angela Bardelli Aur élie Mieuset Vlad Busmachiu Irina Barbiros Fadi Meroueh Svetlana Doltu Niall Walsh Paula Harriott Lara Tavoschi Emma Plugge Alicia Rosell ó Source Type: research
Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy and Infectious Diseases Care for Justice-Involved Populations
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(13):S94-S99. doi: 10.3201/eid3013.230742.ABSTRACTThe Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP) prohibits using federal funds for ambulatory care services and medications (including for infectious diseases) for incarcerated persons. More than one quarter of states, including California and Massachusetts, have asked the federal government for authority to waive the MIEP. To improve health outcomes and continuation of care, those states seek to cover transitional care services provided to persons in the period before release from incarceration. The Massachusetts Sheriffs' Association, Massachusetts...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 2, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Alysse G Wurcel Katharine London Erika L Crable Nicholas Cocchi Peter J Koutoujian Tyler N A Winkelman Source Type: research
Lessons Learned from Cross-Systems Approach to COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Juvenile Justice System, Colorado, USA
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(13):S13-S16. doi: 10.3201/eid3013.230782.ABSTRACTThe global COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the importance of a close partnership between public health and juvenile justice systems when responding to communicable diseases. Many setting-specific obstacles must be navigated to respond effectively to limit disease transmission and negative health outcomes while maintaining necessary services for youth in confinement facilities. The response requires multidisciplinary expertise and collaboration to address unique considerations. Public health mitigation strategies must balance the risk for disease a...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ashley M Tunstall Shannon C O'Brien Deborah M Monaghan Alexis Burakoff Ren ée K Marquardt Source Type: research
Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Response in Correctional and Detention Facilities
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(13):S5-S12. doi: 10.3201/eid3013.230776.ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected persons held in and working in correctional and detention facilities, causing facilities' traditional priorities to shift when healthcare and public health needs temporarily drove many aspects of operations. During July-August 2022, we interviewed members of health departments and criminal justice organizations to document lessons learned from the COVID-19 response in correctional settings. Participants valued enhanced partnerships, flexibility, and innovation, as well as real-time data and correc...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Caroline Waddell Ashley Meehan Megan Schoonveld Zoe Kaplan Michael Bien Claire Bailey Emily Mosites Liesl M Hagan Source Type: research
Lessons Learned from Public Health and State Prison Collaborations during COVID-19 Pandemic and Multifacility Tuberculosis Outbreak, Washington, USA
We describe challenges of a multiagency collaboration during 2 outbreak responses, as well as approaches to address those challenges, and share lessons learned for future communicable disease outbreak responses in correctional settings.PMID:38561633 | DOI:10.3201/eid3013.230777 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Sixtine O Gurrey Lara B Strick Lana K Dov James S Miller Monica Pecha Randy M Stalter David L Miller Brandon Marshall Alonso Pezo Salazar Laura P Newman Source Type: research
Carceral Health is Public Health
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(13):S1-S4. doi: 10.3201/eid3013.240258.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38561635 | DOI:10.3201/eid3013.240258 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Liesl M Hagan Emily Mosites Laura Hughes-Baker Jay Butler Source Type: research
Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Individual Testing Results in a Jail, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
We examined the relationship between COVID-19 diagnostic test results of residents in a jail in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (average population ≈2,700), and quantitative reverse transcription PCR signal for SARS-CoV-2 in weekly wastewater samples collected during October 2021‒May 2022. The jail offered residents rapid antigen testing at entry and periodic mass screenings by reverse transcription PCR of self-collected nasal swab specimens. We aggregated individual test data, calculated the Spearman correlation coefficient, and performed logistic regression to examine the relationship between strength of SARS-CoV-2 PCR signal ...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Lindsay B Saber Shanika S Kennedy Yixin Yang Kyler N Moore Yuke Wang Stephen P Hilton Tylis Y Chang Pengbo Liu Victoria L Phillips Matthew J Akiyama Christine L Moe Anne C Spaulding Source Type: research
Outbreak of Invasive Serratia marcescens among Persons Incarcerated in a State Prison, California, USA, March 2020-December 2022
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(13):S41-S48. doi: 10.3201/eid3013.230801.ABSTRACTSerratia marcescens is an environmental gram-negative bacterium that causes invasive disease in rare cases. During 2020-2022, an outbreak of 21 invasive Serratia infections occurred in a prison in California, USA. Most (95%) patients had a history of recent injection drug use (IDU). We performed whole-genome sequencing and found isolates from 8 patients and 2 pieces of IDU equipment were closely related. We also identified social interactions among patients. We recovered S. marcescens from multiple environmental samples throughout the prison, in...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Amanda Kamali Donna Ferguson Heather Dowless Nancy Ortiz Rituparna Mukhopadhyay Cassandra Schember Rawni Lunsford Justine Hutchinson Marlena Scherer John Crandall Heidi Bauer Alexander Yu Akiko Kimura Source Type: research
Development and Evaluation of Surveillance System for Identifying Jail-Associated COVID-19 Cases in Minnesota, USA, 2022
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(13):S28-S35. doi: 10.3201/eid3013.230719.ABSTRACTConfinement facilities are high-risk settings for the spread of infectious disease, necessitating timely surveillance to inform public health action. To identify jail-associated COVID-19 cases from electronic laboratory reports maintained in the Minnesota Electronic Disease Surveillance System (MEDSS), Minnesota, USA, the Minnesota Department of Health developed a surveillance system that used keyword and address matching (KAM). The KAM system used a SAS program (SAS Institute Inc., https://www.sas.com) and an automated program within MEDSS to i...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Leah J Porter Erica Rapheal Rebecca Huebsch Tiana Bastian Trisha J Robinson Hanna Chakoian Karen G Martin Jennifer Zipprich Source Type: research
Candida auris in US Correctional Facilities
We describe cases and challenges of providing care for 13 patients who were transferred to correctional facilities during January 2020-December 2022 after having a positive C. auris specimen. All patients had positive specimens identified while receiving inpatient care at healthcare facilities in geographic areas with high C. auris prevalence. Correctional facilities reported challenges managing patients and implementing prevention measures; those challenges varied by whether patients were housed in prison medical units or general population units. Although rarely reported, C. auris cases in persons who are incarcerated ma...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ian Hennessee Kaitlin Forsberg Jalysa Erskine Argentina Charles Barbara Russell Juliana Reyes Chantel Emery Nickolas Valencia Adrienne Sherman Jason Mehr Hannah Gallion Brandon Halleck Caleb Cox Marcie Bryant Deborah Nichols Magdalena Medrzycki D Cal Ham Source Type: research
Health Belief Model to Assess Mpox Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Residents and Staff, Cook County Jail, Illinois, USA, July-August 2022
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(13):S49-S55. doi: 10.3201/eid3013.230643.ABSTRACTIn summer 2022, a case of mpox was confirmed in a resident at the Cook County Jail (CCJ) in Chicago, Illinois, USA. We conducted in-depth interviews with CCJ residents and staff to assess mpox knowledge, attitudes, and practices; hygiene and cleaning practices; and risk behaviors. We characterized findings by using health belief model constructs. CCJ residents and staff perceived increased mpox susceptibility but were unsure about infection severity; they were motivated to protect themselves but reported limited mpox knowledge as a barrier and d...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Rashida Hassan Ashley A Meehan Sarah Hughes Amy Beeson Hillary Spencer Jourdan Howard Lauren Tietje Morgan Richardson Anne Schultz Chad Zawitz Isaac Ghinai Liesl M Hagan Source Type: research
Animal Exposure Model for Mapping Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Emergence Risk
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(4):672-680. doi: 10.3201/eid3004.221604.ABSTRACTTo estimate the determinants of spatial variation in Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) transmission and to create a risk map as a preventive public health tool, we designed a survey of small domestic ruminants in Andalusia, Spain. To assess CCHFV exposure spatial distribution, we analyzed serum from 2,440 sheep and goats by using a double-antigen ELISA and modeled exposure probability with environmental predictors by using generalized linear mixed models. CCHFV antibodies detected in 84 samples confirmed low CCHFV prevalence in small ...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - March 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Sara Baz-Flores D ébora Jiménez-Martín Alfonso Peralbo-Moreno Cesar Herraiz David Cano-Terriza Ra úl Cuadrado-Matías Ignacio Garc ía-Bocanegra Francisco Ruiz-Fons Source Type: research
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Diversity and Reassortment, Pakistan, 2017-2020
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(4):654-664. doi: 10.3201/eid3004.231155.ABSTRACTSporadic cases and outbreaks of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been documented across Pakistan since 1976; however, data regarding the diversity of CCHF virus (CCHFV) in Pakistan is sparse. We whole-genome sequenced 36 CCHFV samples collected from persons infected in Pakistan during 2017-2020. Most CCHF cases were from Rawalpindi (n = 10), followed by Peshawar (n = 7) and Islamabad (n = 4). Phylogenetic analysis revealed the Asia-1 genotype was dominant, but 4 reassorted strains were identified. Strains with reassorted medium gene se...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - March 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Massab Umair Zaira Rehman Shannon Whitmer Melissa Mobley Ammad Fahim Aamer Ikram Muhammad Salman Joel M Montgomery John D Klena Source Type: research
A One Health Perspective on Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis, an Emerging Human Multidrug-Resistant Pathogen
This study provides key information for public health teams engaged in reducing the spread of this pathogen.PMID:38526070 | PMC:PMC10977846 | DOI:10.3201/eid3004.231031 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - March 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jennifer Mattock Marie Anne Chattaway Hassan Hartman Timothy J Dallman Anthony M Smith Karen Keddy Liljana Petrovska Emma J Manners Sanelisiwe T Duze Shannon Smouse Nomsa Tau Ruth Timme Dave J Baker Alison E Mather John Wain Gemma C Langridge Source Type: research
Geographic Disparities in Domestic Pig Population Exposure to Ebola Viruses, Guinea, 2017-2019
Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(4):681-690. doi: 10.3201/eid3004.231034.ABSTRACTAlthough pigs are naturally susceptible to Reston virus and experimentally to Ebola virus (EBOV), their role in Orthoebolavirus ecology remains unknown. We tested 888 serum samples collected from pigs in Guinea during 2017-2019 (between the 2013-16 epidemic and its resurgence in 2021) by indirect ELISA against the EBOV nucleoprotein. We identified 2 hotspots of possible pig exposure by IgG titer levels: the northern coast had 48.7% of positive serum samples (37/76), and Forest Guinea, bordering Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the virus emerged an...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - March 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Sol ène Grayo Alimou Camara Bakary Doukour é Isabelle Ellis C écile Troupin Kerstin Fischer Jessica Vanhomwegen Michael White Martin H Groschup Sandra Diederich No ël Tordo Source Type: research
