Zika virus endemic challenges during COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

Zika virus remains endemic and opportunistic of high transmission in the tropical region of Africa, and the repeated cases of the Zika virus in Africa made it public health emergency in 2016. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the catastrophic cases of unknown and unreported deaths overwhelming the regio...

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Autores principales: Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde, Sukaina, Mahnoor, Kumar, Harendra, Farooqui, Tahreem, Faheem, Samar, Chahal, Priyanka, Alkazmi, Luay, Hetta, Helal F., Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8512648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34645524
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00372-6
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author Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde
Sukaina, Mahnoor
Kumar, Harendra
Farooqui, Tahreem
Faheem, Samar
Chahal, Priyanka
Alkazmi, Luay
Hetta, Helal F.
Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
author_facet Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde
Sukaina, Mahnoor
Kumar, Harendra
Farooqui, Tahreem
Faheem, Samar
Chahal, Priyanka
Alkazmi, Luay
Hetta, Helal F.
Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
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description Zika virus remains endemic and opportunistic of high transmission in the tropical region of Africa, and the repeated cases of the Zika virus in Africa made it public health emergency in 2016. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the catastrophic cases of unknown and unreported deaths overwhelming the region of Africa could not give health attention to respond to other endemic diseases. Here, we present the possible complication and challenges associated with the Zika virus in Africa and COVID-19 predominance, shifting the attention from the Zika virus surveillance. This paper determines to enlighten the reader about the situation, the efforts to curb the transmission of both the Zika virus and the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the report recommends sustainable solutions that can lessen the threat to public health.
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spelling pubmed-85126482021-10-13 Zika virus endemic challenges during COVID-19 pandemic in Africa Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde Sukaina, Mahnoor Kumar, Harendra Farooqui, Tahreem Faheem, Samar Chahal, Priyanka Alkazmi, Luay Hetta, Helal F. Batiha, Gaber El-Saber Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor Zika virus remains endemic and opportunistic of high transmission in the tropical region of Africa, and the repeated cases of the Zika virus in Africa made it public health emergency in 2016. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the catastrophic cases of unknown and unreported deaths overwhelming the region of Africa could not give health attention to respond to other endemic diseases. Here, we present the possible complication and challenges associated with the Zika virus in Africa and COVID-19 predominance, shifting the attention from the Zika virus surveillance. This paper determines to enlighten the reader about the situation, the efforts to curb the transmission of both the Zika virus and the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the report recommends sustainable solutions that can lessen the threat to public health. BioMed Central 2021-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8512648/ /pubmed/34645524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00372-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde
Sukaina, Mahnoor
Kumar, Harendra
Farooqui, Tahreem
Faheem, Samar
Chahal, Priyanka
Alkazmi, Luay
Hetta, Helal F.
Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
Zika virus endemic challenges during COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
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topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8512648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34645524
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00372-6
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