While you are afraid of Covid, there is an outbreak of other diseases
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1) In Limpopo province, 60 measles cases, affecting four districts:
Capricorn, Greater Sekhukhune, Mopani, and Waterberg, which
have all been declared measles outbreak areas. Vhembe district
with two laboratory-confirmed measles cases did not meet the
measles outbreak criteria.
2) The Epidemiology Bureau of the Philippines Department of
Health, in an update today, now reports 515 cumulative measles
cases through November 5 this year. This is a more than 200
percent increase in cases (201%) compared to the same period
in 2021 when 171 cses were reported.
Regions reporting the most cases include Calabarzon (93),
the Central Visayas (67) and Metro Manila (64).
One death was reported this year to date in the Bangsamoro
Autonomous Region In Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
3) Tick-borne pathogens (
https://bit.ly/3EMmn5j), known for causing
illnesses such as Lyme disease, are on the rise in Central Canada
- presenting new risks in areas where they were never previously
detected.
The findings from researchers at McGill University and the University
of Ottawa demonstrate the need for more comprehensive testing and
tracking to detect the spread and potential risk of tick-borne
pathogens to human and wildlife populations throughout Canada.
"Most people know that diseases can be transmitted to humans
through the bite of infected ticks. Ticks can carry and spread several
disease agents, called pathogens, that can make people and animals
sick," explains Kirsten Crandall, a PhD candidate under the joint
supervision of McGill University Professor Virginie Millien and
University of Ottawa Professor Jeremy Kerr.
"While the bacteria that causes Lyme disease is the most common
tick-borne pathogen in Canada, other tick-borne pathogens are
moving in," she adds.
4) Iranian health officials have reported a significant increase in
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) cases in deaths in
2022 compared to recent years. Since March, Iran reported 78
CCHF cases, including nine deaths. Last year (March 2021-March
2022), 13 persons were diagnosed with CCHF in the country,
a 500 percent increase, of whom 2 died, and a year before that,
CCHF infected 40 people and claimed 5 lives.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a widespread disease caused
by a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family. The
CCHF virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks, with
a case fatality rate of 10-40%.
Animals become infected by the bite of infected ticks and the virus
remains in their bloodstream for about one week after infection,
allowing the tick-animal-tick cycle to continue when another tick
bites. Although a number of tick genera are capable of becoming
infected with CCHF virus, ticks of the genus Hyalomma are the
principal vector.
