Decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020

Outbreaks of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) are associated with a high disease burden. In this study, we investigated the association between enhanced public health intervention and the incidence of AHC during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. A total of 212,526 AHC cases were reported in Chin...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Li, Guo, Xiangyu, Jiang, Hui, Zhao, Na, Cheng, Wei, Xu, Wangli, Liu, Shelan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Vienna 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8763440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35039974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05282-w
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author Zhang, Li
Guo, Xiangyu
Jiang, Hui
Zhao, Na
Cheng, Wei
Xu, Wangli
Liu, Shelan
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Guo, Xiangyu
Jiang, Hui
Zhao, Na
Cheng, Wei
Xu, Wangli
Liu, Shelan
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description Outbreaks of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) are associated with a high disease burden. In this study, we investigated the association between enhanced public health intervention and the incidence of AHC during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. A total of 212,526 AHC cases were reported in China during 2015–2020. The overall yearly incidence rate and number of AHC cases decreased by 23.08% and 22.15%, respectively, during the COVID-19 epidemic, compared with the previous 5 years (all p < 0.001). Significant reductions in AHC incidence were found both during the emergency period and after the relaxation of emergency measures in 2020 compared to the previous 5 years (22.22% and 28.00% reduction, respectively; p < 0.001). Enhanced public health initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic in China were therefore associated with lower transmission of pathogens causing AHC.
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spelling pubmed-87634402022-01-18 Decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020 Zhang, Li Guo, Xiangyu Jiang, Hui Zhao, Na Cheng, Wei Xu, Wangli Liu, Shelan Arch Virol Brief Report Outbreaks of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) are associated with a high disease burden. In this study, we investigated the association between enhanced public health intervention and the incidence of AHC during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. A total of 212,526 AHC cases were reported in China during 2015–2020. The overall yearly incidence rate and number of AHC cases decreased by 23.08% and 22.15%, respectively, during the COVID-19 epidemic, compared with the previous 5 years (all p < 0.001). Significant reductions in AHC incidence were found both during the emergency period and after the relaxation of emergency measures in 2020 compared to the previous 5 years (22.22% and 28.00% reduction, respectively; p < 0.001). Enhanced public health initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic in China were therefore associated with lower transmission of pathogens causing AHC. Springer Vienna 2022-01-18 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8763440/ /pubmed/35039974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05282-w Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
spellingShingle Brief Report
Zhang, Li
Guo, Xiangyu
Jiang, Hui
Zhao, Na
Cheng, Wei
Xu, Wangli
Liu, Shelan
Decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020
title Decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020
title_full Decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020
title_fullStr Decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020
title_full_unstemmed Decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020
title_short Decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020
title_sort decreased incidence of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with enhanced public health intervention during the covid-19 epidemic in china, 2020
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8763440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35039974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05282-w
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