Weekly Epidemiological Record articles

Recent articles from Weekly Epidemiological Record

Validation of elimination of neonatal tetanus in Turkey by lot quality-assurance cluster sampling/Validation de l'elimination du tetanos neonatal en Turquie a l'aide d'un sondage en grappes pour le controle de la qualite des lots.(Survey)
April 24, 2009... The global initiative to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus is led by WHO, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund. WHO considers neonatal tetanus (NT) to have been eliminated when the incidence is Turkey is a country with 72 million inhabitants and around 1.3 million births...

Integrated control of neglected zoonotic diseases in Africa/Lutte integree contre les zoonoses negligees en Afrique.
April 24, 2009... A meeting to discuss the integrated control of neglected zoonotic diseases in Africa was held in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2007. It was organized by WHO and jointly supported by the European Commission, the International Livestock Research Institute, the Danish Centre for Health Research...

Resurgence of wild poliovirus types 1 and 3 in 15 African countries, January 2008-March 2009/Resurgence du poliovirus sauvage de type 1 et 3 dans 15 pays africains, janvier 2008-mars 2009.
April 17, 2009... The global Polio Eradication Initiative began in 1988. By 2006, transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus (WPV) type 2 had been interrupted globally, and transmission of indigenous type 1 and type 3 (WPV1 and WPV3) had been interrupted in all but 4 countries worldwide. (The countries where...

Yellow fever in Africa and South America, 2007 / La fievre jaune en Afrique et en Amerique du Sud, 2007.
March 27, 2009... In 2007, 59 laboratory-confirmed cases of yellow fever were reported to WHO, including 41 deaths (Table 1, Table 2); this is similar to the number of deaths reported in 2006. Other suspected cases were reported but were not confirmed by laboratory testing. Yellow fever outbreak events were...

Dengue in Africa: emergence of DENV-3, cote d'Ivoire, 2008/ La dengue en Afrique: emergence du DENV-3, cote d'Ivoire, 2008.(Report)
March 13, 2009... Dengue in Africa Dengue fever is an emerging pandemic that has spread globally during the past 30 years as a result of changes in human ecology. Around 2.5 billion people live in the >100 countries in tropical and subtropical areas where the dengue virus is transmitted. More than 70% of...