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Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016
BACKGROUND: The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates the number of forcibly displaced people increased from 22.7 million people in 1996 to 67.7 million people in 2016. Human mobility is associated with the introduction of infectious disease pathogens. The aim of this study was to describe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7374653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32704307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-020-00295-9 |
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author | Desai, Angel N. Ramatowski, John W. Marano, Nina Madoff, Lawrence C. Lassmann, Britta |
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description | BACKGROUND: The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates the number of forcibly displaced people increased from 22.7 million people in 1996 to 67.7 million people in 2016. Human mobility is associated with the introduction of infectious disease pathogens. The aim of this study was to describe the range of pathogens in forcibly displaced populations over time using an informal event monitoring system. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of ProMED, a digital disease monitoring system, to identify reports of outbreak events involving forcibly displaced populations between 1996 and 2016. Number of outbreak events per year was tabulated. Each record was assessed to determine outbreak location, pathogen, origin of persons implicated in the outbreak, and suspected versus confirmed case counts. RESULTS: One hundred twenty-eight independent outbreak events involving forcibly displaced populations were identified. Over 840,000 confirmed or suspected cases of infectious diseases such as measles, cholera, cutaneous leishmaniasis, dengue, and others were reported in 48 destination countries/territories. The average rate of outbreak events concerning forcibly displaced persons per total number of reports published on ProMED per year increased over time. The majority of outbreak events (63%) were due to acquisition of disease in the destination country. CONCLUSION: This study found that reports of outbreak events involving forcibly displaced populations have increased in ProMED. The events and outbreaks detected in this retrospective review underscore the importance of capturing displaced populations in surveillance systems for rapid detection and response. |
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spelling | pubmed-73746532020-07-22 Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016 Desai, Angel N. Ramatowski, John W. Marano, Nina Madoff, Lawrence C. Lassmann, Britta Confl Health Research BACKGROUND: The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates the number of forcibly displaced people increased from 22.7 million people in 1996 to 67.7 million people in 2016. Human mobility is associated with the introduction of infectious disease pathogens. The aim of this study was to describe the range of pathogens in forcibly displaced populations over time using an informal event monitoring system. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of ProMED, a digital disease monitoring system, to identify reports of outbreak events involving forcibly displaced populations between 1996 and 2016. Number of outbreak events per year was tabulated. Each record was assessed to determine outbreak location, pathogen, origin of persons implicated in the outbreak, and suspected versus confirmed case counts. RESULTS: One hundred twenty-eight independent outbreak events involving forcibly displaced populations were identified. Over 840,000 confirmed or suspected cases of infectious diseases such as measles, cholera, cutaneous leishmaniasis, dengue, and others were reported in 48 destination countries/territories. The average rate of outbreak events concerning forcibly displaced persons per total number of reports published on ProMED per year increased over time. The majority of outbreak events (63%) were due to acquisition of disease in the destination country. CONCLUSION: This study found that reports of outbreak events involving forcibly displaced populations have increased in ProMED. The events and outbreaks detected in this retrospective review underscore the importance of capturing displaced populations in surveillance systems for rapid detection and response. BioMed Central 2020-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7374653/ /pubmed/32704307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-020-00295-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Desai, Angel N. Ramatowski, John W. Marano, Nina Madoff, Lawrence C. Lassmann, Britta Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016 |
title | Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016 |
title_full | Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016 |
title_fullStr | Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016 |
title_full_unstemmed | Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016 |
title_short | Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996–2016 |
title_sort | infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of promed reports 1996–2016 |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7374653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32704307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-020-00295-9 |
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