Outbreaks of cholera in the time of Ebola: pre-emptive action needed. Lancet Lond Engl. 2015; 385:851.Azman AS, Legros D, Lessler J, Luquero FJ, Moore SM (2015) Outbreaks of cholera in the time of Ebola: pre-emptive action needed. Lancet 385: 851-...
Historically, between the 19th and 20th centuries seven great pandemics of cholera occurred and worldwide, thousands of people died. Based on an old theory, cholera was considered an air-born disease and the emergence of its outbreaks were attributed to bad weather or miasma. However later in ...
Cholera Outbreaks in the El Tor Biotype Era and the Impact of the New El Tor Variants Vibrio cholerae O1, the causative agent of the disease cholera, has two biotypes namely the classical and El Tor . Biotype is a subspecific taxonomic clas... AK Mukhopadhyay,Y Takeda,GB Nair - 《Curre...
A cholera outbreak can occur in areas where cholera is already endemic when the number of observed cases is greater than expected [4]. Outbreaks in countries where cholera does not frequently occur are defined by the occurrence of at least one confirmed case of cholera with evidence of local ...
Repeated outbreaks increase the risk of a Nipah strain emerging that is better at spreading. Thekkumkara Surendran Anish World View10 Oct 2023 Nature Priorities for progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 14 ‘Life below water’ This year marks the mid-point for the implementation of the...
coalescence of subthreshold flares; by contrast, a negative epidemicity index structurally rules out any possible occurrence of subthreshold outbreaks. Therefore, control strategies should precautionarily be designed to achieve a negative value of the epidemicity index in order to prevent epidemic ...
Vibrio outbreak Cholera Public health 1. Introduction Vibrio species, cholera and other waterborne diseases outbreaks are usually consequences of inaccessibility to improved drinking water supplies and sanitations from time immemorial. Meanwhile, among the primary priorities of the United Nations e.g., th...
(2009) used a Poisson autoregres- sive model to analyse the relationship between the weekly number of cholera cases and climatic variables. The study found a significant association between the increase in chol- era cases and a rise in temperature 6 weeks prior, as well as an increase in...
has imposed strict measures to eliminate the threat, these measures have not been very effective in eradicating the virus7. Many people are now concerned about the possibility of further outbreaks owing to the current situation, and there is a great deal of public anxiety regarding the situation....
IDSP portal also receives, disseminates and monitors continuous alerts about outbreaks of diarrheal diseases, including cholera and foodborne gastroenteritis outbreaks from different parts of the country. However, no systematic surveillance programme for foodborne illness is available in India. Few mission ...