Zoonotic Disease

About 60% of Nairobi residents live in slums with higher poverty, population density prevalence diseases and lower health access than the city average. Some residents own livestock or in are in contact with its products. Most slums dwellers work outside slums. Thus, health surveillance in slum area is vital because of potential disease outbreaks and spread. Yet, little is known on practice/challenges of health surveillance in resource-limited slums.

Objective

Disseminate field lessons from a zoonotic disease study nested on the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS). The study investigates the emergence and introduction of zoonoses in urban areas

Submitted by Magou on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 21:21

Anthrax is endemic and enzootic in Georgia with cases being registered since 1881 with over 2000 foci identified. Since 2005, 439 laboratory confirmed and 211 probable human cases and 190 laboratory confirmed animal cases have been registered. A case-control study performed in 2012 by the National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), National Food Agency (NFA) and the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) found the main transition routes for human cases are slaughtering diseased animals and handling raw meat without protective equipment.

Submitted by ctong on Tue, 10/31/2017 - 11:41

Presented October 25, 2017.

This presentation gives an overview of Zika. Topics include the history of the disease, clinical symptoms and treatment, and surveillance of human cases and the mosquitos that spread the virus.

Submitted by uysz on Wed, 10/25/2017 - 15:07

Outbreak Investigations course consisted to a series of 8 online modules, covering: •Confirm that an outbreak is occurring and confirm diagnosis •Case definition •Descriptive Epidemiology •Hypothesis Generation •Analytic Epidemiology •Preliminary control and Prevention •Communication of findings •Establishing disease surveillance and monitoring The online modules were followed by live webinars, taught by the instructors who wrote each unit of the online webinar. Finally, select epidemiologists from Veterinary Services were invited to a 3-day classroom course, to collaborate with other team members and practice outbreak detection, surveillance and control. Three scenarios were created to highlight economic impact, severe consequences of an uncontrolled outbreak, OneHealth approach and the collaboration needed during a zoonotic disease outbreak.

Objective

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) created a new course in 2013 to meet needs of the veterinary epidemiologists within the Veterinary Services (VS) division. The objective of this training was to provide a standard framework to investigate animal disease outbreaks, and apply practical solutions. VS has expertise in animal surveillance, this training course demonstrated how to incorporate the fundamentals of surveillance into an outbreak scenario. The goal of course was to give epidemiologist skills and practice to more quickly and efficiently conduct an investigation, allow rapid identification of a cause, apply control measures, and limit economic and health impacts of a disease.

Submitted by rmathes on Wed, 10/18/2017 - 08:59

Kyasannur Forest Disease (KFD) is a tick borne viral disease first reported in Shimoga district of Karnataka, India. On January 6th 2015, the disease has spread to neighbouring state, Kerala and a forest guard from Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad who had disposed the monkey carcass was succumbed to the disease following confirmation of the disease from Manipal institute of virology. Spot surveillance of the area by Health department revealed 15 more fever cases among women working as fire line workers. Out of these twelve cases were confirmed to be KFD.

Submitted by uysz on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 13:48

Submitted by uysz on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 12:48

In 2014, a dengue outbreak affected northern Mexico and travel-associated dengue cases increased in southern Arizona. While Arizona has not detected a local dengue case, local transmission occurred in Nogales, Sonora, sister city of Nogales, Arizona across the border. The detection of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, a dengue and chikungunya vector, and the frequent human movement across the border with Sonora heightens Arizona’s risk for introducing emerging mosquito-borne diseases. Limited data exists on the extent or seasonality of Aedes mosquitoes in Arizona border counties.

Submitted by uysz on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 08:51

From December 2014 to February 2015, Maricopa County, Arizona was the host site for several high profile events, including Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. Public health officials were allocated with implementing numerous enhanced surveillance activities to quickly identify health risks to the public. These included laboratory-based surveillance, mortality surveillance, and syndromic surveillance at select hospitals, urgent cares, hotels, and on-site at the events.

Submitted by uysz on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 08:41

Motivated by the global One Health movement, the Washington State Department of Health began a strategic effort to form a One Health Initiative for the state in early 2014. Early research on the topic found that many states were working on One Health, but we did not find any published models of the processes used to establish it as an initiative.

Objective

This presentation describes a model of the process used to form Washington State’s One Health Initiative. We will provide three examples of how the One Health model is being applied to three emerging pathogen issues. Our objective for this information is to provide this model for others to consider who may be seeking to establish One Health Initiatives in their own regions.

Submitted by Magou on Thu, 09/28/2017 - 13:36

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