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Evaluating COVID-19 impact, vaccination, birth registration, and underreporting in a predominantly indigenous population in Chiapas, Mexico

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases
Background  Indigenous populations globally face significant health disparities compared to non-Indigenous groups, primarily due to marginalization and limited access to healthcare.
Elienai Joaquin-Damas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of MenAfriVac on Meningococcal A Meningitis in Cameroon: A Retrospective Study Using Case-by-Case-Based Surveillance Data from 2009 to 2015

open access: yesJournal of Tropical Medicine, 2021
Meningococcal meningitis is a public health concern in Africa. Conjugated vaccine against serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis (MenAfriVac) was used in mass vaccination and was proved to have a good impact in the meningitis belt.
Bouba Gake   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Tale of Three Recent Pandemics: Influenza, HIV and SARS-CoV-2

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Emerging infectious diseases are one of the main threats to public health, with the potential to cause a pandemic when the infectious agent manages to spread globally.
M. Miranda   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exam‐level analysis of lecture capture viewing and student exam performance

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study asks how lecture capture relates to exam performance in biology courses with three noncumulative exams. Mixed‐effects modeling separated between‐students from within‐student effects on exam %. Students who watched more recordings earned higher grades, but viewing spikes above a student's own mean, consistent with cramming, predicted small ...
Kirk Hillsley
wiley   +1 more source

Trends of cholera epidemics and associated mortality factors in Cameroon: 2018–2023: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Cameroon has faced frequent and severe cholera outbreaks since 1971, with case-fatality rates (CFRs) ranging from 12% in 1991, to 5.3% in 2014, all higher than the less than 1% cholera CFR target set by WHO. However, not many studies providing
Akenji Blaise Mboringong   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Viral Pandemics in the Past Two Decades: An Overview

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021
An epidemic that occurs worldwide, involving many countries and affecting a large population is called as a pandemic. The ongoing corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has not only adversely affected the global healthcare infrastructure, but has ...
P. Bhadoria, G. Gupta, Anubha Agarwal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An uneven pandemic

open access: yesNew Scientist, 2020
Coronavirus will play out very differently in the world's poorest nations.
openaire   +3 more sources

Planning for the Pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2006
Over the past year, many of us have become involved in the development of strategic plans for the hospitals, health authorities and clinical practices in which we work in case an influenza pandemic occurs in the very near future. Planning for this on the front lines is difficult, due in large part to the uncertainties involved.
openaire   +4 more sources

Longitudinal Study of Salivary Biomarkers in the Definition of Clinico‐Molecular Progression of Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Longitudinal changes in salivary biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease (PD) from early (T0) to 4‐year follow‐up (T1), quantified by ELISA: oligomeric and total α‐synuclein, total and phosphorylated tau, MAP1LC3B (autophagy), and TNFa (inflammation). Blue arrows indicate direction of change at T1 vs T0 (up = increase; down = decrease).
Maria Ilenia De Bartolo   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Lockdowns Effective in Managing Pandemics?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
The present coronavirus crisis caused a major worldwide disruption which has not been experienced for decades. The lockdown-based crisis management was implemented by nearly all the countries, and studies confirming lockdown effectiveness can be found ...
M. Yanovskiy, Y. Socol
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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