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Jan 4, 2019 · Lassa fever is a hemorrhagic viral disease endemic to West Africa. Usually, each year sees only a smattering of cases reported, but hospitalized patients risk a 15% chance of death. Responding to fears that a 10-fold surge in cases in Nigeria in 2018 signaled an incipient outbreak, Kafetzopoulou et al. performed metagenomic nanopore sequencing ...
Running time. 74 min. Country. Australia. Language. English. Mountain is a 2017 Australian documentary film, co-written, co-produced and directed by Jennifer Peedom. It premiered at the Sydney Opera House in June 2017. Mountain follows Peedom's 2015 documentary film Sherpa.
Dec 31, 2019 · The current outbreak of yellow fever virus in Brazil (2016–2018). (A) Brazilian states with YFV cases recorded and sequenced in humans, non-human primates (NHP) and mosquitoes between 2017 ...
Jan 17, 2019 · On October 16, 2017, the Harare City Health Department (HCHD) in Zimbabwe identified a suspected typhoid fever (typhoid) case in a resident of Harare’s Mbare suburb. Typhoid is a potentially fatal illness caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (Typhi). HCHD initiated an investigation and identified a cluster of 17 suspected typhoid cases ...
Feb 2, 2018 · To map within-country variation in annual incidence, we used previously published national case estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015). 14 The incidence map was averaged over 47 years to visualise spatial variation without the large temporal fluctuations seen for yellow fever. Finally, the ...
In Kern County, the first case recognized and reported occurred in August, 1901. Kern’s first case occurred in a 19-year-old man who worked as a canner and had been a resident for only 12 days. Since the first case of Valley Fever was described in Kern County in 1901, the local health department, healthcare providers, and others have ...
A greater number of epidemics in the Americas from the 17th to the nineteenth century in com-parison with Africa resulted from a combination of socio-economic, demographic and ecological circumstances that. Fig. 4 Yellow fever genotypes (adapted from [30, 31, 85–87, 89, 113])
