When attempting to stop a viral epidemic from becoming pandemic, one of the biggest issues is sharing information openly between governments. Government's reporting accurately on the disease status and demanding aid from the UN, WHO, and CDC is one of the keys to maintaining a healthy and safe world. International cooperation and sharing of resources leads to better handling of an outbreak, especially in the 21st century.
Right now Egypt is currently dealing with the largest H5N1 outbreak since the virus was identified in the mid 1990's. Unfortunately, the Egyptian ministry of health stopped regularly reporting updates of the outbreak to the public in November. The last report made on the issue by the WHO was an estimated 66 cases and 13 deaths from H5N1 since the beginning of the year as of March 3, 2015. The WHO states that Egypt's numbers of laboratory confirmed H5N1 infections are the highest ever reported in a single month consecutively from December through February.
On March 16, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN published reports of 17 newly infected individuals in Egypt. Fortunately, the WHO, FAO, and the Egyptian Ministry of Health have not found ease of transmission between humans. The H5N1 infections have all been associated with exposure to live poultry. Only a few clusters exist that show possibility of human to human transmission, but this is most likely due to environmental exposure within the same family, as opposed to active respiratory transmission between humans.
Because H5N1 infection is highly pathogenic, resulting in approximate mortality rates of 60%, this outbreak deserves close monitoring. The Egyptian government should do everything in its power to increase surveillance and reporting, and if they do not have adequate resources, demand help from international organizations that can provide it.
Let's stay hyper vigilant and hope that this strain of H5N1 continues to be solely transmitted zoonotically
- Marcus Munoz
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
I has suffered for Human papillomavirus HPV) for 2years, I was given some tablets at the hospital but I refused to take it, They said I have to be on it for life so I don't want take a drugs everyday for life. No point in taking medicine everyday when u won't get cure from it and I was advice to seek for natural herbal cure, after some time I found dr onokun is the most trustful herbalist that have herbs to cure wicked symptom's,I emailed dr onokun, for 2weeks been his patient he cured my (HPV) with his herbal. I only used his natural herbs for two weeks it was 100% cure. I'm not (HPV) patient anymore. I'm happy about it i finally got cured out of this mess been in my body for 2years. I also recommend you if you're living with (HPV) or herpes symptoms i also want you to be free contact dr onokun with the email attach to my post. Dronokunherbalcure@gmail.com
Post a Comment