Background Zika virus (ZIKV) disease is a flavivirus disease transmitted primarily through mosquito bites. Other modes including sexual and transplacental have also been documented. ZI...

Background In October 2021, an event-based surveillance system reported rise in cases of fever with arthralgia in Kovuru, a town in South India. We investigated to describe the epidemi...

Background Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) refers to monthly administration of full treatment courses of antimalarial medicine to children <5 years during high malaria transm...

Background During September-October, 2021, 16 meningitis cases and ten deaths were reported in an extended family of Chakrala, District Mianwali, Pakistan. On 1st November 2021, we car...

Background The San Juan de Dios Hospital (SJDH) is a regional referral hospital. From January to March 2022, Burkholderia cepacia was reported in 21 bacteriological cultures. This is a...

Background Mumps is common in childhood caused by Paramyxoviridae family virus, it is transmitted by saliva droplets or aerosols. Outbreaks in teenagers and young adults has been repor...

Background Candida auris is an emerging yeast of global health importance, due to its multidrug-resistant capacity to the main antifungal classes. In December 2021, two cases of C. aur...

Background Zambia still experiences annual measles outbreaks despite having made major strides toward its control. On 15 November 2021, Chililabombwe district reported 24 cases of acut...

Background In July 2021, a cargo ship that originated in Tema, Ghana, arrived in Amapá, northern Brazil. The ship was quarantined for 33 days until it was released to dock at the Brazi...

Background In Japan, mumps vaccine is not routinely recommended, with a coverage rate for mumps vaccine being approximately 30%, resulting in an epidemic every 4-5 years. Mumps is moni...

Background On February 17, 2022, the Sughd Regional Center for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance received a call about 3 people hospitalized with suspected food-borne bot...

Background Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis is essential for disease identification and elimination. In 2016, Kenya listed GeneXpert as the preferred first test for TB diagnosis and identif...

Background India aims to achieve measles-rubella (MR) elimination by 2023. To achieve this, vaccine preventable disease (VPD) surveillance system flags clustering of five or more fever...

Background Seventy-four percent of Guatemala’s territory (108,880 km2) is considered a malarious area, a public health problem. The northern region has a higher incidence of 7.3 cases/...

Background Chicken pox is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by varicella zoster virus. Vaccination against chicken pox is yet to be introduced in the routine immunization in Ghana. ...

Background Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), a brain dysfunction that occurs when the brain does not receive enough oxygen or blood flow, remains a problem of great concern worldw...

Background WHO approved over 30 COVID-19 vaccines on the emergency use listing (EUL) to support the drive towards control of the pandemic. By midyear 2021, about 65% of the world’s pop...

Background Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Despite the established efficacy of vaccines, there are many reasons people are hesitant about vac...

Background Healthcare worker (HCW) infection accounted for 35% of global COVID-19 cases as of March 2021. In Liberia, 2,042 confirmed cases including 85 deaths had been recorded, with ...

Background By October 2021, policymakers in Bantul District, Indonesia, were confident about reopening schools due to 80% vaccination coverage. However, 54% of students < 12 years o...

Background Globally, as of 8th April 2022, there were 494,587,638 confirmed cases with 6,170,283 deaths of SARS-COV-2, a disease of pandemic proportion. In Africa, 8,609,251 confirmed ...

Background Measles is an endemic disease in Africa despite available vaccines. In Western Health Region 1, The Gambia, routine immunization coverage has significantly declined due to t...

Background Mortality among the notified Tuberculosis patients is higher in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India as compared to the state average. Reasons for this unusually high ...

Background Measles is one of the vaccine-preventable disease and global burden including Ethiopia. It is highly contagious and elimination-targeted disease that needs immediate investi...