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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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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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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 Essarani, Manisha Nadeem, Soeba Ochani, Sidhant Hasibuzzaman, Md. Al Ullah, Kaleem |
author_facet | Shaikh, Omer Ahmed Rahim, Maliha Essarani, Manisha Nadeem, Soeba Ochani, Sidhant Hasibuzzaman, Md. Al 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/) |
spellingShingle | Short Communications Shaikh, Omer Ahmed Rahim, Maliha Essarani, Manisha Nadeem, Soeba Ochani, Sidhant Hasibuzzaman, Md. Al Ullah, Kaleem Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication |
title | Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication |
title_full | Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication |
title_fullStr | Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication |
title_full_unstemmed | Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication |
title_short | Dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication |
title_sort | dreadful infectious disease outbreaks threaten flood-ravaged pakistan: short communication |
topic | Short Communications |
url | 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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