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Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication

A rise in the incidence of water-borne, communicable illnesses, and viral outbreaks in Pakistan follows periods of heavy rainfall. Due to climate change, floods and droughts have had devastating effects on human health by facilitating the spread of infectious illnesses including cholera, malaria, ty...

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Autores principales: Shaikh, Omer Ahmed, Rahim, Maliha, Essarani, Manisha, Nadeem, Soeba, Ochani, Sidhant, Hasibuzzaman, Md. Al, Ullah, Kaleem
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10289612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000754
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author Shaikh, Omer Ahmed
Rahim, Maliha
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Ochani, Sidhant
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Ullah, Kaleem
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description A rise in the incidence of water-borne, communicable illnesses, and viral outbreaks in Pakistan follows periods of heavy rainfall. Due to climate change, floods and droughts have had devastating effects on human health by facilitating the spread of infectious illnesses including cholera, malaria, typhoid, dengue fever, and viral hepatitis A. Food instability, starvation, malnutrition, and a lack of potable water are only some of the indirect effects of flooding on health. Recently, one of the worst floods in history devastated Pakistan, affecting more than 333 million people along with a significant portion of the nation submerged. Malaria, dengue fever, and other ailments are on the rise in Pakistan, threatening to overwhelm the country’s healthcare infrastructure. There is an urgent need for preventative measures in Pakistan to cope with dreadful outbreaks.
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spelling pubmed-102896122023-06-24 Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication Shaikh, Omer Ahmed Rahim, Maliha Essarani, Manisha Nadeem, Soeba Ochani, Sidhant Hasibuzzaman, Md. Al Ullah, Kaleem Ann Med Surg (Lond) Short Communications A rise in the incidence of water-borne, communicable illnesses, and viral outbreaks in Pakistan follows periods of heavy rainfall. Due to climate change, floods and droughts have had devastating effects on human health by facilitating the spread of infectious illnesses including cholera, malaria, typhoid, dengue fever, and viral hepatitis A. Food instability, starvation, malnutrition, and a lack of potable water are only some of the indirect effects of flooding on health. Recently, one of the worst floods in history devastated Pakistan, affecting more than 333 million people along with a significant portion of the nation submerged. Malaria, dengue fever, and other ailments are on the rise in Pakistan, threatening to overwhelm the country’s healthcare infrastructure. There is an urgent need for preventative measures in Pakistan to cope with dreadful outbreaks. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10289612/ /pubmed/37363565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000754 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10289612/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000000754
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