Notifiable Disease Guidelines - Yellow Fever - July
... first week. Infants born to immune mothers may demonstrate passive immunity for up to six months. Occurrence General Yellow fever disease was first recognized in an outbreak in 1648 in the New World. The virus was introduced by trading vessels infested with the Ae. aegypti mosquito. In 1793, an epid ...
... first week. Infants born to immune mothers may demonstrate passive immunity for up to six months. Occurrence General Yellow fever disease was first recognized in an outbreak in 1648 in the New World. The virus was introduced by trading vessels infested with the Ae. aegypti mosquito. In 1793, an epid ...
Case 1: A four-month-old boy with bilateral arm swelling
... five-year-old boy presented with daily fevers (39°C to 41°C), leg pain and poor appetite after having returned from Venezuela five days previously. There were no other symptoms, and he was well between the episodes of fever. There was no rural exposure. The child and his parents drank bottled water, ...
... five-year-old boy presented with daily fevers (39°C to 41°C), leg pain and poor appetite after having returned from Venezuela five days previously. There were no other symptoms, and he was well between the episodes of fever. There was no rural exposure. The child and his parents drank bottled water, ...
Peculiarities of infectious diseases Contagenicity
... Specificity – every disease has the specific ...
... Specificity – every disease has the specific ...
Epidemic Vs Pandemic - Ms. Keener
... considered an outbreak. This may be true if it is an unknown disease, is new to a community, or has been absent from a population for a long time. • An outbreak is classified as either an epidemic or pandemic. ...
... considered an outbreak. This may be true if it is an unknown disease, is new to a community, or has been absent from a population for a long time. • An outbreak is classified as either an epidemic or pandemic. ...
Civil War Diseases - Twyman
... Civil War Diseases The Civil War was fought, claimed the Union army surgeon general, "at the end of the medical Middle Ages." Little was known about what caused disease, how to stop it from spreading, or how to cure it. Surgical techniques ranged from the barbaric to the barely competent. A Civil Wa ...
... Civil War Diseases The Civil War was fought, claimed the Union army surgeon general, "at the end of the medical Middle Ages." Little was known about what caused disease, how to stop it from spreading, or how to cure it. Surgical techniques ranged from the barbaric to the barely competent. A Civil Wa ...
Rift Valley Fever, What`s the Big Deal?
... - Licensed in So. Africa but meeting with reluctance - Can phenotypically revert to virulence ...
... - Licensed in So. Africa but meeting with reluctance - Can phenotypically revert to virulence ...
Pathogen Wanted Poster 12
... Victims Who /what most commonly gets the disease? Hide out of the culprit Where is it found in the world? Hide out part 2 In what part of the body is it found? Number of victims What is the latest count of organisms harmed by it? ...
... Victims Who /what most commonly gets the disease? Hide out of the culprit Where is it found in the world? Hide out part 2 In what part of the body is it found? Number of victims What is the latest count of organisms harmed by it? ...
Plague Madagascar 21/11/2014
... 21 November 2014 - On 4 November 2014, WHO was notified by the Ministry of Health of Madagascar of an outbreak of plague. The first case, a male from Soamahatamana village in the district of Tsiroanomandidy, was identified on 31 August. The patient died on 3 September. As of 16 November, a total of ...
... 21 November 2014 - On 4 November 2014, WHO was notified by the Ministry of Health of Madagascar of an outbreak of plague. The first case, a male from Soamahatamana village in the district of Tsiroanomandidy, was identified on 31 August. The patient died on 3 September. As of 16 November, a total of ...
Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics — What`s the - Pandem-Sim
... larger area or region, a smaller community, or even a specific location, such as a hospital. It can last from days to years or occur seasonally year-after-year. It is generally thought that all cases of an outbreak are related in some way and in general, are more localized than epidemics. The U.S. C ...
... larger area or region, a smaller community, or even a specific location, such as a hospital. It can last from days to years or occur seasonally year-after-year. It is generally thought that all cases of an outbreak are related in some way and in general, are more localized than epidemics. The U.S. C ...
Scenario-Based Pandemic Preparedness and Response SOP
... (6 months from an epidemic to a pandemic in the case of the A/H1N1 2009 pandemic). While epidemics could be confined within communities or an entire country, and could terminate with the disease in question becoming endemic, pandemics are expansive—i.e. transboundary and spread-out across several co ...
... (6 months from an epidemic to a pandemic in the case of the A/H1N1 2009 pandemic). While epidemics could be confined within communities or an entire country, and could terminate with the disease in question becoming endemic, pandemics are expansive—i.e. transboundary and spread-out across several co ...
SARS防治分級因應措施對照摘要表
... environments as well as manpower and material resources. 2. Check and replenish temperature equipments in case the outbreak of epidemic is escalated. 3. If cluster fever occurs, the institutions should have their members take their body temperature regularly. ...
... environments as well as manpower and material resources. 2. Check and replenish temperature equipments in case the outbreak of epidemic is escalated. 3. If cluster fever occurs, the institutions should have their members take their body temperature regularly. ...
Bacteria and You Web Quest Part 1 Choose any two articles from
... Genetics in the Gut: Intestinal Microbes Could Drive Obesity and Other ... Americans Caught Dirtyhanded ...
... Genetics in the Gut: Intestinal Microbes Could Drive Obesity and Other ... Americans Caught Dirtyhanded ...
Flu Epidemic - Supercomputing Challenge
... Flu Epidemic in a Boarding School In 1978, a study was conducted and reported in British Medical Journal (3/4/78) of an outbreak of the flu virus in a boy’s boarding school. The school had a population of 763 boys; of these 512 were confined to bed during the epidemic, which lasted from 1/22/78 unt ...
... Flu Epidemic in a Boarding School In 1978, a study was conducted and reported in British Medical Journal (3/4/78) of an outbreak of the flu virus in a boy’s boarding school. The school had a population of 763 boys; of these 512 were confined to bed during the epidemic, which lasted from 1/22/78 unt ...
Presentation on emerging infections
... detected a new coronavirus in SARS patients. Less often, a paramyxovirus (metapneumovirus) also has been found. Both are lipid-enveloped, singlestranded RNA viruses. The identification of a novel coronavirus is consistent with a potential etiologic role, but the pathogenesis of SARS remains unclear ...
... detected a new coronavirus in SARS patients. Less often, a paramyxovirus (metapneumovirus) also has been found. Both are lipid-enveloped, singlestranded RNA viruses. The identification of a novel coronavirus is consistent with a potential etiologic role, but the pathogenesis of SARS remains unclear ...
Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the
... The outbreak on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, which started in early June 2003, has moved northward. Four cases were identified during Epidemiological Weeks (EW) 33 and 34 (ending on 16 and 23 August, respectively) in the counties of Agustin Codazzi, Becerril and La Jagua de Ibirico, in the Depar ...
... The outbreak on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, which started in early June 2003, has moved northward. Four cases were identified during Epidemiological Weeks (EW) 33 and 34 (ending on 16 and 23 August, respectively) in the counties of Agustin Codazzi, Becerril and La Jagua de Ibirico, in the Depar ...
Yellow Fever
... Africa and Latin America, where a few hundred cases occur annually. It occurs most frequently among young adult males who are occupationally exposed in forested or transitional areas of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Perú (with 70-90% of cases being reported from Bolivia and Perú). Historica ...
... Africa and Latin America, where a few hundred cases occur annually. It occurs most frequently among young adult males who are occupationally exposed in forested or transitional areas of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Perú (with 70-90% of cases being reported from Bolivia and Perú). Historica ...
Week 27, 2012
... urged to clean and remove indoor and outdoor water containers, and doctors are advised to be vigilant to prevent further spread of the disease. Japanese encephalitis:The Japanese encephalitis season has approached. The epidemic peak usually occurs in June and July. A cumulative total of 20 cases hav ...
... urged to clean and remove indoor and outdoor water containers, and doctors are advised to be vigilant to prevent further spread of the disease. Japanese encephalitis:The Japanese encephalitis season has approached. The epidemic peak usually occurs in June and July. A cumulative total of 20 cases hav ...
Infectious and Communicable Diseases
... Low grade fever may be beneficial to fight off organisms or enhance the effect of antibiotics. ...
... Low grade fever may be beneficial to fight off organisms or enhance the effect of antibiotics. ...
Click here to find out when to keep your child
... fever. See additional information on fever, sore throat and influenza. A child with flu‐like illness (fever and cough) must stay home from school for at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever or signs of a fever, without the use of fever‐reducing medicine. A fever is defined as a temperatu ...
... fever. See additional information on fever, sore throat and influenza. A child with flu‐like illness (fever and cough) must stay home from school for at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever or signs of a fever, without the use of fever‐reducing medicine. A fever is defined as a temperatu ...
Yellow fever in Buenos Aires
The Yellow Fever in Buenos Aires was a series of epidemics that took place in 1852, 1858, 1870 and 1871, the latter being a disaster that killed about 8% of Porteños: in a city were the daily death rate was less than 20, there were days that killed more than 500 people. The Yellow Fever would have come from Asunción, Paraguay, brought by Argentine soldiers returning from the war just fought in that country, having previously spread in the city of Corrientes. As its worst, Buenos Aires population was reduced to a third because of the exodus of those escaping the scourge.Some of the main causes of the spread of this disease were the insufficient supply of drinking water, pollution of ground water by human waste, the warm and humid climate in summer, the overcrowding suffered by the black people and, since 1871, the overcrowding of the European immigrants who entered the country incessantly and without sanitary measures. Also, the saladeros (manufacturing establishments for producing salted and dried meat) polluted the Matanza River (south of the city limits), and the infected ditches full of debris which ran through the city encouraged the spread of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which was responsible of transmitting Yellow Fever.A witness to the epidemic of 1871, named Mardoqueo Navarro, wrote on April 13 the following description in his diary:Businesses closed, streets deserted, a shortage of doctors, corpses without assistance, everyone flees if they can...