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- 1From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 37)On 21 July 2009, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases published (1) the first evidence that the elimination of onchocerciasis (river blindness) is feasible with ivermectin. WHO estimates that >37 million people, often those...
- 2From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 11-12)The thirteenth meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication was convened at the Carter Center in Atlanta, GA, USA, on 29 October 2008. (1) Topics discussed at this meeting were the status of the global...
- 3From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 24)The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization advises the Director-General of WHO on the full range of immunization issues. (1) SAGE met during 6-8 April 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland, and its conclusions...
- 4From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 40)The Fifteenth Annual Informal Consultation of the Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) was held at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 23 to 25 June 2009. Participants represented approximately 20% of all...
- 5From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 22)This article was previously published in Eurosurveillance. * Illness and death from diseases caused by unsafe food are a constant threat to the security of public health as well as to socioeconomic development...
- 6From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 15)During the first 11 weeks of 2009 (1 January--15 March), a total of 24 868 suspected cases of meningococcal disease, including 1513 deaths, (1) were reported to WHO by countries of the African meningitis belt. Of these...
- 7From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 25)On 11 June 2009, WHO raised the level of pandemic alert from phase 5 to phase 6, indicating that an influenza pandemic is under way, (1) the first in 41 years. Phase 6 is characterized by sustained human-to-human...
- 8From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 23)The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization advises the Director-General of WHO on the full range of immunization issues. Its remit extends beyond childhood immunization to all vaccine-preventable...
- 9From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 21)Introduction The National Leprosy Elimination Programme in Yemen has successfully sustained its activities since 2005 with the aim of further reducing the burden of disease in the country. In keeping with WHO's Global...
- 10From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 27)In 2003, WHO's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific formally declared a goal to eliminate measles: (1,2) in 2005, a target date of 2012 was established for measles elimination in the region. (3) The region had an...
- 11From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 36)A network of 144 laboratories in 97 countries supports the global Polio Eradication Initiative. Established in 1988, the Global Polio Laboratory Network is coordinated by WHO, and isolates and characterizes polioviruses...
- 12From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 7)Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak, one of the world's largest ever recorded, is far from being brought under control. An enhanced response is needed to urgently reverse an epidemic that has so far infected more than 60 000...
- 13From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 38)Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is caused by the vector-borne parasite Onchocerca volvulus and is endemic in 13 foci in 6 countries in WHO's Region of the Americas: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and...
- 14From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 43)After a decrease in the number of wild poliovirus (WPV) cases from 1129 in 2006 to 285 in 2007, (1,2) Nigeria had the world's highest polio burden in 2008, with 798 (48%) of 1651 WPV cases reported globally, including...
- 15From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 37)Once wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission has been interrupted worldwide, facilities holding infectious or potentially infectious WPV materials will represent the only significant remaining source of WPV. In May 2008, the...
- 16From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 11-12)Surveillance systems and research studies supported by WHO to monitor antimalarial drug efficacy in countries are providing new evidence that parasites resistant to artemisinin, a compound used to treat...
- 17From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 28)India is the most populous of the 4 remaining countries where transmission of wild poliovirus (WPV) has never been interrupted (the others are Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan). WPV transmission persists in India in the...
- 18From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 24)As of 11 June 2009, 74 countries had reported to WHO a total of 28 774 laboratory-confirmed cases of new influenza A (H1N1) virus infection, including 144 deaths. The epidemic, which originated in the Region of the...
- 19From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 38)In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis worldwide. Since then, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has succeeded in reducing both the global incidence of polio associated with...
- 20From: Weekly Epidemiological Record. (Vol. 84, Issue 44)The fourteenth meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication convened at the Carter Center on 4 June 2009 to discuss the potential eradicability of measles. (1) Measles eradication In January 2002,...