Evans, Michelle V. Garchitorena, Andres Rakotonanahary, Rado J. L. Drake, John M. Andriamihaja, Benjamin Rajaonarifara, Elinambinina Ngonghala, Calistus N. Roche, Benjamin Bonds, Matthew H. Rakotonirina, Julio
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Global Health Action
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc globally with particular concerns for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where models suggest that the majority of the population will become infected. Conventional wisdom suggests that the continent will bear a higher burden of COVID-19 for the same reasons it suffers from other infectious diseases: ecology, socio-economic condit...
Impouma, Benido Roelens, Maroussia Williams, George Sie Flahault, Antoine Codeço, Claudia Torres Moussana, Fleury Farham, Bridget Hamblion, Esther L Mboussou, Franck Keiser, Olivia
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Emerging infectious diseases
Large-scale protracted outbreaks can be prevented through early detection, notification, and rapid control. We assessed trends in timeliness of detecting and responding to outbreaks in the African Region reported to the World Health Organization during 2017-2019. We computed the median time to each outbreak milestone and assessed the rates of chang...
Saurabh, Suman Verma, Mahendra Kumar Gautam, Vaishali Kumar, Nitesh Goel, Akhil Dhanesh Gupta, Manoj Kumar Bhardwaj, Pankaj Misra, Sanjeev
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background On March 9, 2020, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in the northwestern part of India. Understanding the epidemiology of COVID-19 at a local level is becoming increasingly important to guide measures to control the pandemic. Objective The aim of this study was to estimate the serial interval and basic reproducti...
Jian, Shu-Wan Cheng, Hao-Yuan Huang, Xiang-Ting Liu, Ding-Ping
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Aim Comprehensive case investigation and contact tracing are crucial to prevent community spread of COVID-19. We demonstrated a utility of using traditional contact tracing measures supplemented with symptom tracking and contact management system to assist public health workers with high efficiency. Methods A centralized contact tracing system was ...
Lal, Arush Ashworth, Henry C. Dada, Sara Hoemeke, Laura Tambo, Ernest
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
Strengthening health systems and maintaining essential service delivery during health emergencies response is critical for early detection and diagnosis, prompt treatment, and effective control of pandemics, including the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Health information systems (HIS) developed during recent Ebola outbreaks in West Afri...
Bingham, Paul Wada, Masako van Andel, Mary McFadden, Andrew Sanson, Robert Stevenson, Mark
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Frontiers in veterinary science
An incursion of an important exotic transboundary animal disease requires a prompt and intensive response. The routine analysis of up-to-date data, as near to real time as possible, is essential for the objective assessment of the patterns of disease spread or effectiveness of control measures and the formulation of alternative control strategies. ...
Sodjinou, Vincent Dossou Douba, Alfred Nimpa, Marcellin Mengouo Masembe, Yolande Vuo Randria, Mireille Ndiaye, Charlotte Faty
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The Pan African Medical Journal
Introduction on October 4th, 2018, a measles outbreak was declared in Madagascar. This study describes the outbreak response in terms of coordination, case management, vaccination response and epidemiological surveillance. Methods data were collected using a line list and vaccination tally sheet. Serum samples were collected within 30 days of rash ...
Costantino, Valentina Heslop, David J MacIntyre, C Raina
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Journal of travel medicine
Australia implemented a travel ban on China on 1 February 2020, while COVID-19 was largely localized to China. We modelled three scenarios to test the impact of travel bans on epidemic control. Scenario one was no ban; scenario two and three were the current ban followed by a full or partial lifting (allow over 100 000 university students to enter ...
Escobar, Daniel J Lanzi, Maria Saberi, Pouné Love, Ruby RN Linkin, Darren R Kelly, John J Jhala, Darshana Amorosa, Valerianna Hofmann, Mary Doyon, Jeffrey B
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Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Nursing homes and long-term care facilities represent highly vulnerable environments for respiratory disease outbreaks, such as COVID-19. We describe a COVID-19 outbreak in a nursing home that was rapidly contained by using a universal testing strategy of all residents and nursing home staff.
Sorvillo, Teresa E. Rodriguez, Sergio E. Hudson, Peter Carey, Megan Rodriguez, Luis L. Spiropoulou, Christina F. Bird, Brian H. Spengler, Jessica R. Bente, Dennis A.
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) infection is identified in the 2018 World Health Organization Research and Development Blueprint and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) priority A list due to its high risk to public health and national security. Tick-borne CCHFV is widespread, found in Europe, Asia, A...
