BIOS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: World Food Programme, Nimba County, Bong County
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Chapter 20: emergency yellow fever mass vaccination in post-civil war liberia (sanku et al. , 2017) Liberia had surveillance system (including yellow fever surveillance) in the past but due to ongoing civil conflict, the system had never been fully operational. So this outbreak was essentially verified via common sense. Who considers even one case of confirmed yellow fever worthy of outbreak investigation because of the concern for human-to-human transmission, particularly in urban areas. Who declared an outbreak of yellow fever in liberia following laboratory confirmation of four cases (three of which were fatal). Confirm diagnosis diagnosis was confirmed via serology/serum testing for igm anti-yellow fever antibodies or pcr testing. Rising antibody response from two blood samples collected several weeks apart after onset of illness is confirmatory. There was no really assembling of a team . Rather, many organizations came together to investigate/conduct the mass vaccination program including: [who and.
