The Iranian healthcare system, although strong in many ways, faces limitations in addressing vector-borne diseases due to resource allocation, infrastructure constraints, and varying levels of public awareness
West Nile virusBirds are the primary reservoirs of West Nile virus. The virus is transmitted to humans and horses by mosquitoes that have bitten infected birds. infectious disease Also known as: communicable disease, contagious disease Written by ...
and 1958 led to muskrat epizootics and 1500 human cases, chiefly among trappers, their family members, and laboratory workers. Infection is transmitted directly from infected animal tissues or by tick bite, with a peak in spring or early summer and another peak in autumn. The illness resemb...
Q fever is the illness in man due to infection with the microorganismCoxiella burnetii. It is a zoonosis and its epidemiology is closely linked to the animal reservoirs of the causative microorganism,C. burnetii. Important elements of the epidemiology of this infection can be learned from the h...
It has a sudden onset of generalized illness, malaise, fever, myalgia, headache, diarrhea, vomiting, rash, and hemorrhage. Person-to-person transmission occurs via blood, secretions, organs, and semen. Confirmed cases have been identified in a number of countries in Africa. The virus is ...
2019 Yujuan Yue, Xiaobo Liu , Dongsheng Ren, Haixia Wu and Qiyong Liu * Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable, Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China; ...
and the source of the imported case. An imported cases of dengue fever was defined by the patients been to a dengue affected foreign country and reported being bitten by mosquitoes within 15 days of the onset of illness. Indigenous and imported cases in the two study areas were identified by...
Millions of children travel annually, whether they are refugees, international adoptees, visitors, or vacationers. Although most young travelers do well, many develop a febrile illness during or shortly after their trips. Approaching a fever in the returning traveler requires an appropriate index of ...
Malaria is an acute febrile illness caused by Plasmodium parasite. It is considered a serious public health threat because of its severity and often fatal outcome. Over half of the population is known to be at risk of malaria globally; and most of them are children under-5 years of age [...
At diagnosis, a dengue fever case is defined if a patient satisfies the following criteria: 1) Any person with acute febrile illness of 2–7 days duration with two or more of the following: headache, retro-orbital pain, myalgia, arthralgia, rash, haemorrhagic manifesta- tions, leucopenia (...