It’s a fact that when we increase surveillance, we can keep outbreaks small and prevent further spread of deadly diseases. In a scientific report titled ‘Impact of enhanced Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (VHF) surveillance on outbreak detection and response in Uganda’… Continue Reading →
Yesterday, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) published the weekly Epidemiological Report that details the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases across Nigeria. Again, the underlying power of ‘prevention’ was the core focus. Updates from the report outlines the… Continue Reading →
Social media has become a useful tool for epidemic control and management. Platforms such as Facebook are developing tools to improve health outcomes. The Ebola outbreak was one such classic example, numbers alone could not describe the reach and penetration… Continue Reading →
One of the action packages of the Global Health Security Agenda is the prevention of antimicrobial resistance. The emergence of new strains of infectious diseases is a threat to public health that frustrates the existing process of combating these diseases…. Continue Reading →
This week, there have been advances in the journey to epidemic control and disease management. From the recent study that redirected our minds to other ways to control epidemics to the 2017 report from Bill and Melinda Gates. The question… Continue Reading →
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