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Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review

The war in Syria, which started over 11 years ago, has devastated the country’s water sources, healthcare system, and other vital facilities for healthy living. The country is vulnerable to outbreaks, especially epidemic-prone ones like cholera, due to its fragile health system. Syria experienced it...

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Autores principales: Eneh, Stanley Chinedu, Admad, Sofya, Nazir, Abubakar, Onukansi, Francisca Ogochukwu, Oluwatobi, Alese, Innocent, David Chinaecherem, Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10319003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37408746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1161936
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author Eneh, Stanley Chinedu
Admad, Sofya
Nazir, Abubakar
Onukansi, Francisca Ogochukwu
Oluwatobi, Alese
Innocent, David Chinaecherem
Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa
author_facet Eneh, Stanley Chinedu
Admad, Sofya
Nazir, Abubakar
Onukansi, Francisca Ogochukwu
Oluwatobi, Alese
Innocent, David Chinaecherem
Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa
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description The war in Syria, which started over 11 years ago, has devastated the country’s water sources, healthcare system, and other vital facilities for healthy living. The country is vulnerable to outbreaks, especially epidemic-prone ones like cholera, due to its fragile health system. Syria experienced its last hit of cholera in 2009, which led to the deaths of several Syrian children and affected about 1,000 people. The current cholera resurgence in Syria calls for public concern. Considering the poor access to clean water, the forced relocation of people, and other destruction caused by the war, these factors have exposed Syrian children to infectious diseases like cholera. We argued for more efforts toward the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in the country. We also pointed out the need for proper education and sensitization campaigns using all available resources to educate the populace, mass chlorination of wells, mapping vulnerable areas, and implementing WASH while encouraging vaccination coverage for cholera as a strategy to reduce its incidence. Improving the national surveillance systems will aid in the timely and appropriate reporting of any outbreak. Again, more negotiations should be done to seek a lasting solution to ending the war and restoring peace and serenity in the country.
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spelling pubmed-103190032023-07-05 Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review Eneh, Stanley Chinedu Admad, Sofya Nazir, Abubakar Onukansi, Francisca Ogochukwu Oluwatobi, Alese Innocent, David Chinaecherem Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa Front Public Health Public Health The war in Syria, which started over 11 years ago, has devastated the country’s water sources, healthcare system, and other vital facilities for healthy living. The country is vulnerable to outbreaks, especially epidemic-prone ones like cholera, due to its fragile health system. Syria experienced its last hit of cholera in 2009, which led to the deaths of several Syrian children and affected about 1,000 people. The current cholera resurgence in Syria calls for public concern. Considering the poor access to clean water, the forced relocation of people, and other destruction caused by the war, these factors have exposed Syrian children to infectious diseases like cholera. We argued for more efforts toward the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in the country. We also pointed out the need for proper education and sensitization campaigns using all available resources to educate the populace, mass chlorination of wells, mapping vulnerable areas, and implementing WASH while encouraging vaccination coverage for cholera as a strategy to reduce its incidence. Improving the national surveillance systems will aid in the timely and appropriate reporting of any outbreak. Again, more negotiations should be done to seek a lasting solution to ending the war and restoring peace and serenity in the country. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10319003/ /pubmed/37408746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1161936 Text en Copyright © 2023 Eneh, Admad, Nazir, Onukansi, Oluwatobi, Innocent and Ojo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Eneh, Stanley Chinedu
Admad, Sofya
Nazir, Abubakar
Onukansi, Francisca Ogochukwu
Oluwatobi, Alese
Innocent, David Chinaecherem
Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa
Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review
title Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review
title_full Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review
title_fullStr Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review
title_full_unstemmed Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review
title_short Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review
title_sort cholera outbreak in syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy – a review
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10319003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37408746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1161936
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