We present a summary of the burden of reported disease outbreaks in Kenya, 2007–2022. Methods: We reviewed historical surveillance data, 2007–2022, summarized the annual caseload and deaths of reported outbreaks, and classified the outbreaks into 3 categories, that is high, moderate, and low ...
OBJECTIVE: To assess global, regional and national trends in the impact of floods from 1990 to 2022 and determine factors influencing flood-related deaths. METHODS: We used data on flood disasters from the International Disaster Database for 1990-2022 from 168 countries. We calculated the annual ...
Private practitioners' practices for tuberculosis management in a city largely served by the private health sector in Uganda Background: Globally, tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality having caused 1.6 million deaths in 2021. Uganda is a high T... Ssemasaazi, ...
Though first isolated in domestic pigs in 1921 in Kenya, the virus occurs naturally in both vertebrate and invertebrate sylvatic hosts throughout sub-Saharan Africa and is transmitted to domestic pigs when infected ticks of the Ornithodoros moubata complex feed on them [2]. A domestic pig cycle,...
The majority of malaria infections (94%) and malaria-related deaths (95%) occurred in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) [2], where Plasmodium falciparum is the dominant malaria parasite [1]. The test-treat-track strategy advised by WHO is one of the backbones of current malaria control and ...
In Kenya, cervical cancer is the second most frequent cancer among women and the leading cause of cancer deaths in women of reproductive age (WRA) with a rate of 300,000 deaths per year. Data from hospital-based registries in Kenya indicate that cancer of the cervix accounted for 70-80% ...
If taphonomic processes affect habitat specificity in bone assemblages, then this should be revealed in time sequences of remains from particular habitats. We analyzed Recent surface bone in six habitats of Amboseli National Park, Kenya, to determine whether taxonomic composition varied with the degree...
The disease continued in the same area of London and induced deaths among turkeys on farms as a result of previous feeding with Brazilian groundnut from mills carried by the same company, which included groundnut in the composition of the feed. Groundnut meal was later proved as the main suspec...
In addition, there were approximately 19.3 million new cancer cases and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths in 2020 [6]. Cucurbitacins, a group of highly oxidized tetracyclic triterpenoids abundant in various plant species, have emerged as promising candidates for anticancer interventions [1,3]. ...
A randomised, multicentre, double-blind, controlled trial of single-dose GARDASIL9® or Cervarix® HPV vaccination compared to meningococcal immunisation was performed in Kenya (women aged 15–20 years). One dose efficiently prevented incident persistent oncogenic HPV infection, similar to multidose...