Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update

Autor: Maria D Van Kerkhove, Mahmoud Hassan, Ibrahima Socé Fall, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Boris Igor Pavlin, Sandra Adele, Kazuki Shimizu, Oliver Morgan, Daniel Feikin, Lorenzo Subissi, Richard G Pebody, Masaya Kato, Opeayo Ogundiran, Ana Riviere-Cinnamond, Tshewang Dorji, Ingrid Hammermeister Nezu, Friday Idoko, Tamano Matsui, Silviu Ciobanu, Juniorcaius Ikejezie, Blanche Johanna Greene-Cramer, Tondri Noe Guinko, Samuel Mesfin, Harsh Lata, Alessandro Miglietta, Yurie Izawa, Aura Rocio Escobar Corado Waeber, Anahi Rico Chinchilla, Adedoyin Awofisayo-Okuyelu, Esther Hamblion, Melissa M Higdon, Ayse Acma, Samuel Moro, Homa Attar Cohen, Mary Anissa Sinnathamby, James Richard Otieno, Yosef Temre, Brian Ngongheh Ajong, Bernadette Basuta Mirembe, Vaishali Sodagar, Craig Schultz, Joao Muianga, Stéphane De Barros, Yeowon Jin, Shagun Khare, Marcia Poole, Nyka Alexander, Manilay Phengxay, Emilie Peron, Brett Nicholas Archer, Zyleen Alnashir Kassamali, Abdi Mahamud

Publikováno v: BMJ Global Health, Vol 9, Iss 4 (2024)

On 31 December 2019, the Municipal Health Commission of Wuhan, China, reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases. On 5 January 2020, the WHO publicly released a Disease Outbreak News (DON) report, providing information about the pneumonia cases,

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Protective effectiveness of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and hybrid immunity against Omicron infection and severe disease: a systematic review and meta-regression

Autor: Niklas Bobrovitz, Harriet Ware, Xiaomeng Ma, Zihan Li, Reza Hosseini, Christian Cao, Anabel Selemon, Mairead Whelan, Zahra Premji, Hanane Issa, Brianna Cheng, Laith J. Abu Raddad, David Buckeridge, Maria Van Kerkhove, Vanessa Piechotta, Melissa Higdon, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Isabel Bergeri, Daniel Feikin, Rahul K. Arora, Minal Patel, Lorenzo Subissi

SummaryBackgroundWe aimed to systematically review the magnitude and duration of the protective effectiveness of prior infection (PE) and hybrid immunity (HE) against Omicron infection and severe disease.MethodsWe searched pre-print and peer-reviewed

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https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.02.22280610

Weekly miscarriage rates in a community-based prospective cohort study in rural western Kenya

Autor: Kayla F Laserson, Robert F Breiman, Meghna Desai, Feiko O ter Kuile, Simon Kariuki, Stephanie Dellicour, Peter Ouma, Laurence Slutsker, George Aol, Nicole Yan, Godfrey Bigogo, Mary J Hamel, Deron C Burton, Martina Oneko, Daniel Feikin, Frank Odhiambo, Gregory Calip, Andreas Stergachis

Publikováno v: BMJ Open, Vol 6, Iss 4 (2016)

Objective Information on adverse pregnancy outcomes is important to monitor the impact of public health interventions. Miscarriage is a challenging end point to ascertain and there is scarce information on its rate in low-income countries. The object

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Respiratory syncytial virus prevention within reach: the vaccine and monoclonal antibody landscape

Autor: Natalie I Mazur, Jonne Terstappen, Ranju Baral, Azucena Bardají, Philippe Beutels, Ursula J Buchholz, Cheryl Cohen, James E Crowe, Clare L Cutland, Linda Eckert, Daniel Feikin, Tiffany Fitzpatrick, Youyi Fong, Barney S Graham, Terho Heikkinen, Deborah Higgins, Siddhivinayak Hirve, Keith P Klugman, Leyla Kragten-Tabatabaie, Philippe Lemey, Romina Libster, Yvette Löwensteyn, Asuncion Mejias, Flor M Munoz, Patrick K Munywoki, Lawrence Mwananyanda, Harish Nair, Marta C Nunes, Octavio Ramilo, Peter Richmond, Tracy J Ruckwardt, Charles Sande, Padmini Srikantiah, Naveen Thacker, Kody A Waldstein, Dan Weinberger, Joanne Wildenbeest, Dexter Wiseman, Heather J Zar, Maria Zambon, Louis Bont

Publikováno v: The lancet infectious diseases
Mazur, N I, Terstappen, J, Baral, R, Bardají, A, Beutels, P, Buchholz, U J, Cohen, C, Crowe, J E, Cutland, C L, Eckert, L, Feikin, D, Fitzpatrick, T, Fong, Y, Graham, B S, Heikkinen, T, Higgins, D, Hirve, S, Klugman, K P, Kragten-tabatabaie, L, Lemey, P, Libster, R, Löwensteyn, Y, Mejias, A, Munoz, F M, Munywoki, P K, Mwananyanda, L, Nair, H, Nunes, M C, Ramilo, O, Richmond, P, Ruckwardt, T J, Sande, C, Srikantiah, P, Thacker, N, Waldstein, K A, Weinberger, D, Wildenbeest, J, Wiseman, D, Zar, H J, Zambon, M & Bont, L 2022, ' Respiratory syncytial virus prevention within reach : the vaccine and monoclonal antibody landscape ', The Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. e2-e21 . https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00291-2

Respiratory syncytial virus is the second most common cause of infant mortality and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults (aged >60 years). Efforts to develop a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine or immunoprophylaxis remain highly

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35952703

Determining the Provincial and National Burden of Influenza-Associated Severe Acute Respiratory Illness in South Africa Using a Rapid Assessment Methodology.

Autor: Jillian Murray, Adam Cohen, Sibongile Walaza, Michelle Groome, Shabir Madhi, Ebrahim Variava, Kathleen Kahn, Halima Dawood, Stefano Tempia, Akhona Tshangela, Marietje Venter, Daniel Feikin, Cheryl Cohen

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 7, p e0132078 (2015)

Local disease burden data are necessary to set national influenza vaccination policy. In 2010 the population of South Africa was 50 million and the HIV prevalence was 11%. We used a previously developed methodology to determine severe influenza burde

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