High case-fatality ratios, substantial disease-related morbidity, and the threat of outbreaks could nevertheless make NmB an attractive target for preventive and reactive immunisation programmes.
… A notable REC application is exploration of possible scenarios involving importation of avian influenza into Singapore and assessment of the threat of outbreaks occurring throughout southeast Asia" [23].
"There is an incredible opportunity to wipe out the last 1% of polio, saving lives now and preventing the threat of outbreaks in the future".
LONDON, Dec 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Large parts of Europe, West and Central Africa, and South America face the threat of outbreaks of the deadly dengue virus due to climate change and urbanization, according to the first-ever maps of dengue vulnerability published on Tuesday.
Thus, the threat of outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases looms large unless the vaccination coverage is brought to a particular threshold below which the herd immunity tends to be inadequate to prevent outbreaks.
Overcrowding in relocation centres, coupled with inadequate water and sanitation facilities, represents another health risk with the potential to increase the threat of outbreaks of diarrhoeal illness and the spread of communicable diseases.
The threat of outbreaks remains a risk until transmission of wild poliovirus is stopped in all polio-affected countries, especially the remaining polio-endemic countries (Nigeria in Africa and Pakistan, India and Afghanistan in Asia).
African swine fever virus p72 genotype IX, associated with outbreaks in eastern Africa, is cocirculating in the Republic of the Congo with West African genotype I. Data suggest that viruses from eastern Africa are moving into western Africa, increasing the threat of outbreaks caused by novel viruses in this region.
In 2000, recognizing that comprehensive surveillance depends on many different players and networks, WHO created the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) which serves as a network of networks "to link this expertise and skill to keep the international community constantly alert to the threat of outbreaks and ready to respond" (27).
He said the discovery of three dead crows close to the city and an infected chicken could suggest a serious threat of an outbreak later in the summer.
