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Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance
The effects of COVID-19 have gone undocumented in nomadic pastoralist communities across Africa, which are largely invisible to health surveillance systems despite the fact that they are of key significance in the setting of emerging infectious disease. We expose these landscapes as a “blind spot” i...
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The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7646752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32918410 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1004 |
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author | Hassell, James M. Zimmerman, Dawn Fèvre, Eric M. Zinsstag, Jakob Bukachi, Salome Barry, Michele Muturi, Mathew Bett, Bernard Jensen, Nathaniel Ali, Seid Maples, Stace Rushton, Jonathan Tschopp, Rea Madaine, Yahya O. Abtidon, Rahma A. Wild, Hannah |
author_facet | Hassell, James M. Zimmerman, Dawn Fèvre, Eric M. Zinsstag, Jakob Bukachi, Salome Barry, Michele Muturi, Mathew Bett, Bernard Jensen, Nathaniel Ali, Seid Maples, Stace Rushton, Jonathan Tschopp, Rea Madaine, Yahya O. Abtidon, Rahma A. Wild, Hannah |
author_sort | Hassell, James M. |
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description | The effects of COVID-19 have gone undocumented in nomadic pastoralist communities across Africa, which are largely invisible to health surveillance systems despite the fact that they are of key significance in the setting of emerging infectious disease. We expose these landscapes as a “blind spot” in global health surveillance, elaborate on the ways in which current health surveillance infrastructure is ill-equipped to capture pastoralist populations and the animals with which they coexist, and highlight the consequential risks of inadequate surveillance among pastoralists and their livestock to global health. As a platform for further dialogue, we present concrete solutions to address this gap. |
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spelling | pubmed-76467522020-11-17 Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance Hassell, James M. Zimmerman, Dawn Fèvre, Eric M. Zinsstag, Jakob Bukachi, Salome Barry, Michele Muturi, Mathew Bett, Bernard Jensen, Nathaniel Ali, Seid Maples, Stace Rushton, Jonathan Tschopp, Rea Madaine, Yahya O. Abtidon, Rahma A. Wild, Hannah Am J Trop Med Hyg Perspective Piece The effects of COVID-19 have gone undocumented in nomadic pastoralist communities across Africa, which are largely invisible to health surveillance systems despite the fact that they are of key significance in the setting of emerging infectious disease. We expose these landscapes as a “blind spot” in global health surveillance, elaborate on the ways in which current health surveillance infrastructure is ill-equipped to capture pastoralist populations and the animals with which they coexist, and highlight the consequential risks of inadequate surveillance among pastoralists and their livestock to global health. As a platform for further dialogue, we present concrete solutions to address this gap. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2020-11 2020-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7646752/ /pubmed/32918410 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1004 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Piece Hassell, James M. Zimmerman, Dawn Fèvre, Eric M. Zinsstag, Jakob Bukachi, Salome Barry, Michele Muturi, Mathew Bett, Bernard Jensen, Nathaniel Ali, Seid Maples, Stace Rushton, Jonathan Tschopp, Rea Madaine, Yahya O. Abtidon, Rahma A. Wild, Hannah Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance |
title | Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance |
title_full | Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance |
title_fullStr | Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance |
title_full_unstemmed | Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance |
title_short | Africa’s Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance |
title_sort | africa’s nomadic pastoralists and their animals are an invisible frontier in pandemic surveillance |
topic | Perspective Piece |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7646752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32918410 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1004 |
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