The spread of Yellow fever amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic in Africa and the ongoing efforts to mitigate it

Çavdaroğlu, Sude; Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi; Mohan, Anmol; Xenophontos, Eleni; Costa, Ana Carla dos Santos; Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde; Tsagkaris, Christos; Outani, Oumaima; Ahmad, Shoaib; Essar, Mohammad Yasir

doi:10.1002/jmv.27027

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“…2,3 Under the current pandemic, when health officials are mainly focused on containing the virus, every other infectious disease outbreak could obstruct COVID-19-fighting efforts and pose diagnostic challenges for medical personnel. 4,5 In this context, Ethiopia has been facing a serious public health problem regarding the dengue outbreak amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Before 2013, there had been no records of the dengue virus in Ethiopia, but the virus has since spread to multiple regions.…”

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Dengue and COVID‐19: A risk of coepidemic in Ethiopia

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Fakhor²,

Nimavat

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Journal of Medical Virology

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Dengue and COVID‐19: A risk of coepidemic in Ethiopia

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Fakhor²,

Nimavat

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Journal of Medical Virology

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“…The emergence of COVID-19 in Africa has made it more difficult to get health services, as well as hampered treatment, testing, immunization, and surveillance efforts for other infectious illnesses throughout Africa. 8 , 10 , 11 , 12 Data on infectious diseases in most African countries is poor and ambiguous as the focus switches to COVID-19 care. For example, Egypt has devised several measures that was put in place during COVID-19, which includes improving their surveillance system to track down diseases and contact tracing, improving healthcare management, and establishing a national Egyptian surveillance system to understand the current stage of the pandemic in Egypt.…”

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Impact of poor disease surveillance system on COVID-19 response in africa: Time to rethink and rebuilt

Aborode¹,

Hasan

Jain

et al. 2021

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

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Infectious disease outbreaks have long posed a public health threat, especially in Africa, where the incidence of infectious outbreaks has risen exponentially. Although, Africa has witnessed several outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola virus disease and other epidemic-prone diseases, little attention has been given towards strengthening the health surveillance systems. However, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered the region's already due to inefficient and ineffective health surveillance systems. However, the impact posed by the COVID-19 pandemic on health systems in the region has been catastrophic, it has also stressed the importance of rethinking and focusing on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we examine how Africa's poor disease surveillance systems affected the responses and strategies aimed at COVID-19 containment. To ensure early disease outbreak identification and prompt public health interventions in Africa, the current disease surveillance and response mechanisms must be strengthened.

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“…As expected, the pandemic has different annihilating public health and socioeconomic impacts across the world, resulting in a reduction in the epidemiological control of several infectious diseases, such as zoonotic diseases. [4][5][6] Africa, like every other continent has been affected, and the pre-existing deficits in its health system add as a major disadvantage, 7 and Nigeria, besides other West African nations, is also faced with a repetitive Lassa fever epidemic. As of May 3, 2021, the entire number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria amounted to 165.2 thousand.…”

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Lassa fever and COVID‐19 in Africa: A double crisis on the fragile health system

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Costa

Xenophontos

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Dear Editor, Lassa Fever (LF), an acute zoonotic disease caused by the Lassa fever virus (LFV), has approximately 2 million annual occurrences with 5000 to 10000 deaths. 1 The disease has been identified to be endemic in Africa, particularly West Africa, where a larger percentage is recorded in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, 2 especially as a result of its transmission pathways which is through rodents and warm-blooded species via contact with their pathogenic infected body wastes around the house. [1][2][3] Studies have shown that one of the major challenges facing the fight against this disease is the similarities between its symptoms, that include, sore throat, pains in the joints, back and chest, and weakness, 1 with many other popular diseases. Since the disease can progresses in serious cases to pharynx inflammation, conjunctivitis, abdominal pains, diarrhoea, vomiting and clinical manifestations that range from facial drops to respiratory symptoms, loss of hearing, acute hemorrhagic fever, multiple-organ failure, foetal loss and death, 1,2 that under and misdiagnosis is a problem as early diagnosis

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The spread of Yellow fever amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic in Africa and the ongoing efforts to mitigate it

Cited by 27 publications

References 10 publications

Dengue and COVID‐19: A risk of coepidemic in Ethiopia

Dengue and COVID‐19: A risk of coepidemic in Ethiopia

Impact of poor disease surveillance system on COVID-19 response in africa: Time to rethink and rebuilt

Lassa fever and COVID‐19 in Africa: A double crisis on the fragile health system

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