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Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Afghanistan, January 2022-June 2023
This report describes activities and progress toward polio eradication in Afghanistan during January 2022-June 2023. Two WPV1 cases were reported during January-December 2022 and five during January-June 2023 (as of August 26), all from three provinces in the southeast and east regions bordering Pakistan. All five 2023 patients had reportedly received ≥16 oral poliovirus vaccine doses. WPV1 was detected in sewage samples from a site in the south region in May 2023 and one in the north region in June 2023, the first detections since February 2021 and March 2020, respectively. Restrictions on house-to-house vaccination lim...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - September 21, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Adam Bjork Irfan Elahi Akbar Sumangala Chaudhury Mufti Zubair Wadood Fazal Ather Jaume Jorba Maureen Martinez Source Type: research
Improving mycetoma case detection through the training of community health workers in Northern Uganda: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial
Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2023 Sep 8;10:20499361231198332. doi: 10.1177/20499361231198332. eCollection 2023 Jan-Dec.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: The World Health Organization acknowledges the need for countries to incorporate neglected tropical disease care into their routine health care system. However, low detection rates and late presentation of mycetoma to health facilities have been observed in endemic countries, including Uganda.OBJECTIVE: To empower community health workers (CHWs) in Northern Uganda to recognize and refer suspects of mycetoma to health facilities.DESIGN: This will be a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial bas...
Source: Adv Data - September 11, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Winnie Kibone Andrew Weil Semulimi Richard Kwizera Felix Bongomin Source Type: research
Outbreak of Locally Acquired Mosquito-Transmitted (Autochthonous) Malaria - Florida and Texas, May-July 2023
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2023 Sep 8;72(36):973-978. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7236a1.ABSTRACTEight cases of locally acquired, mosquito-transmitted (i.e., autochthonous) Plasmodium vivax malaria, which has not been reported in the United States since 2003, were reported to CDC from state health departments in Florida and Texas during May 18-July 17, 2023. As of August 4, 2023, case surveillance, mosquito surveillance and control activities, and public outreach and education activities continue in both states. U.S. clinicians need to consider a malaria diagnosis in patients with unexplained fever, especially in areas where auto...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - September 7, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Dawn Blackburn Michael Drennon Kelly Broussard Andrea M Morrison Danielle Stanek Elizabeth Sarney Christina Ferracci Steve Huard Wade Brennan John Eaton Sara Nealeigh Natalie Barber Rebecca A Zimler Jeremy N Adams Carina Blackmore Manuel Gordillo Robert M Source Type: research
Genomic epidemiology unveils the dynamics and spatial corridor behind the Yellow Fever virus outbreak in Southern Brazil
This study illustrates that genomics linked with eco-epidemiology can provide new insights into the landscape of YFV transmission, augmenting traditional approaches to infectious disease surveillance and control.PMID:37656782 | DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adg9204
Source: Adv Data - September 1, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Marta Giovanetti Francesco Pinotti Camila Zanluca Vagner Fonseca Taishi Nakase Andrea C Koishi Marcel Tscha Guilherme Soares Gisiane Gruber Dorl Ant ônio Ernesto M L Marques Renato Sousa Talita Emile Ribeiro Adelino Joilson Xavier Carla de Oliveira Sandr Source Type: research
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Pakistan, January 2022-June 2023
This report describes Pakistan's progress toward polio eradication during January 2022-June 2023. During 2022, Pakistan reported 20 WPV type 1 (WPV1) cases, all of which occurred within a small geographic area encompassing three districts in south Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As of June 23, only a single WPV1 case from Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has been reported in 2023, compared with 13 cases during the same period in 2022. In addition, 11 WPV1 isolates have been reported from various environmental surveillance (ES) sewage sampling sites to date in 2023, including in Karachi, the capital of the southern provinc...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - August 17, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Chukwuma Mbaeyi Shahzad Baig Rana Muhammad Safdar Zainul Khan Hamish Young Jaume Jorba Zubair M Wadood Hamid Jafari Muhammad Masroor Alam Richard Franka Source Type: research
