A Call to Introduce Structured Zika Surveillance in India

India has the climatic conditions conducive to year-round transmission of Zika virus, and a structured disease surveillance program should be implemented to prevent an outbreak. Such a program should (i) start screening before an outbreak arises; (ii) collect baseline data to assess future disease r...

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Autor principal: Ishtiaq, Farah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2018
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Science & Society
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7119193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29153262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2017.10.008
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description India has the climatic conditions conducive to year-round transmission of Zika virus, and a structured disease surveillance program should be implemented to prevent an outbreak. Such a program should (i) start screening before an outbreak arises; (ii) collect baseline data to assess future disease risk and monitor potential birth defects; and (iii) provide new insights into the ecology of the disease and inform public health policy following the one health concept.
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spelling pubmed-71191932020-04-08 A Call to Introduce Structured Zika Surveillance in India Ishtiaq, Farah Trends Parasitol Science & Society India has the climatic conditions conducive to year-round transmission of Zika virus, and a structured disease surveillance program should be implemented to prevent an outbreak. Such a program should (i) start screening before an outbreak arises; (ii) collect baseline data to assess future disease risk and monitor potential birth defects; and (iii) provide new insights into the ecology of the disease and inform public health policy following the one health concept. Elsevier Ltd. 2018-02 2017-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7119193/ /pubmed/29153262 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2017.10.008 Text en © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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