Charles Okot

TL;DR: The assessment highlighted critical gaps hampering the efficient functioning of the national laboratory network and the IHR(2005) action plan should be developed to foster national and international public health security.

TL;DR: The wide geographical case dispersion as well as the male and older age preponderance suggests transmission during the yellow fever outbreak was largely sylvatic and related to occupational activities around forests.

TL;DR: The spatio-temporal distribution, the notification delay as well as the morbidity and mortality associated with these outbreaks of infectious diseases in the African region in 2018 were analysed.

TL;DR: The outbreak was successfully contained 14 days after its initial detection and average RT-PCR cycle threshold values for fatal cases during the acute phase of illness were significantly lower than those for nonfatal cases.

TL;DR: Recent studies show that children with NS who receive adequate care—including anti-epileptic treatment, nutritional and emotional support, and physical rehabilitation—may substantially improve clinically, and case-control studies have demonstrated a statistically significant higher prevalence of onchocerciasis in individuals with NS than in controls.