Geeta Shakya

TL;DR: Results in this study are consistent with Nepal as the origin of the Haitian outbreak, highlighting how rapidly infectious diseases might be transmitted globally through international travel and how public health officials need advanced molecular tools along with standard epidemiological analyses to quickly determine the sources of outbreaks.

TL;DR: The spatial pattern of JE cases during the 2005 epidemic in Nepal was significantly associated with low precipitation and the percentage of irrigated land and a unimodal non-significant relationship between JE Incidence and pig-to-human ratio.

TL;DR: This study provides evidence for a single-source introduction of cholera from Nepal into Haiti followed by rapid, extensive, and continued clonal expansion of V. cholerae across the landscape necessitating real-time surveillance efforts to complement the whole-genome epidemiological analysis.

TL;DR: The remarkable expansion of dengue in Nepal requires national surveillance to refine the burden and make recommendations regarding control and prevention programs, and it is believed that the use of existing JE surveillance network for integrated d Dengue surveillance may represent the most appropriate alternative.

TL;DR: All the isolated pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 virus found in Nepal were antigenically and genetically related to the novel A/CALIFORNIA/07/2009-LIKE (H 1N1)v type.