Health crisis in Venezuela: Status of communicable diseases and implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019

Re-emerging diseases outbreaks are being reported in Venezuela since 2012/13, following ongoing political and economic crisis. Healthcare system collapse has led to an increasing incidence and mortality from communicable diseases. Increasing movement of people between Venezuela and the European Unio...

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Autores principales: Espinosa, Laura, Mirinaviciute, Grazina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31164188
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.22.1900308
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description Re-emerging diseases outbreaks are being reported in Venezuela since 2012/13, following ongoing political and economic crisis. Healthcare system collapse has led to an increasing incidence and mortality from communicable diseases. Increasing movement of people between Venezuela and the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) creates a need for increased awareness of the infectious disease risks and requirements for appropriate investigation and treatment of individuals arriving from Venezuela; overall risk for EU/EEA citizens is low.
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spelling pubmed-65494612019-06-17 Health crisis in Venezuela: Status of communicable diseases and implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019 Espinosa, Laura Mirinaviciute, Grazina Euro Surveill Rapid Communication Re-emerging diseases outbreaks are being reported in Venezuela since 2012/13, following ongoing political and economic crisis. Healthcare system collapse has led to an increasing incidence and mortality from communicable diseases. Increasing movement of people between Venezuela and the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) creates a need for increased awareness of the infectious disease risks and requirements for appropriate investigation and treatment of individuals arriving from Venezuela; overall risk for EU/EEA citizens is low. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6549461/ /pubmed/31164188 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.22.1900308 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Health crisis in Venezuela: Status of communicable diseases and implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019
title Health crisis in Venezuela: Status of communicable diseases and implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019
title_full Health crisis in Venezuela: Status of communicable diseases and implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019
title_fullStr Health crisis in Venezuela: Status of communicable diseases and implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019
title_full_unstemmed Health crisis in Venezuela: Status of communicable diseases and implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019
title_short Health crisis in Venezuela: Status of communicable diseases and implications for the European Union and European Economic Area, May 2019
title_sort health crisis in venezuela: status of communicable diseases and implications for the european union and european economic area, may 2019
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31164188
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.22.1900308
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