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EWARN & Diseases LIBYA/ Surveillance Bulletin Epidemiological Reporting REPORTING TOTAL TOTAL Week Period SITES CONSULTATION EWARN 21 Sep. 2020 39 69 13476 3631 27 Sep. 2020 Municipalities surveillance status. Hospital surveillance status Leading causes of morbidity In week 39: 2020, AURI is still the leading cause of morbidity, with ALRI and AD. In table 1: number of cases for each disease and percentage out of total consultations. Condition Number of cases Percentage from total consultations Acute Upper Respiratory Infections 2122 15.747% (AURI) Acute Lower Respiratory Infections 426 3.161% (ALRI) Acute Diarrhea (AD) 506 3.755% Table 1: number of cases for leading causes of morbidity and their percentage out of total consultations AURTI are generally mild in nature, commonly caused by viruses, sometimes with bacteria. ALRTI epidemiologically includes acute bronchitis, bronchiolitis, influenza and pneumonia. 1 Morbidity Patterns: Figure ((1,2,3)) shows a distribution of reported cases on municipalities for week 39: Figure 1: distribution of (AURI) Cases of week 39 Figure 2: distribution of (ALRI) Cases of week 39 Figure 3: distribution of (AD) Cases of week 39 2 Distribution of AURI, ALRI, and AD Cases by Municipality for Week 39/2020: Figure 4: Distribution of AURI, ALRI, and AD cases by municipality for week 39: 2020 AURI reported cases were mainly coming from: Alabyar, Ashati, Benghazi and Subrata, while the highest numbers of ALRI reported cases coming from Igdabya. AD reported cases mainly from Benghazi. Figure 5: Trend of AURI, ALRI and AD by weeks to week 39 / 2020 3 Vaccine preventable diseases (VPD): Disease No. of Cases Measles 3 Pertussis 1 Meningitis 5 AFP 2 Table 2: vaccine preventable diseases reported cases In week 39 :2020 The total number of new cases of fever and rash (Suspected Measles) was (3) cases: (2) Albaida and (1) Igdabya, blood sample sent to measles lab for confirmation. (2) reported cases of Pertussis from: (1) Tobruk and (1) Igdabya. (2) Reported case acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) from: (1) Sebha and (1) Zawia. (5) Meningitis suspected cases reported from: (3) Benghazi, (1) Tobruk and (1) Sebha. No reported case of Neonatal tetanus last reported case was in 2016., No diphtheria cases reported in this week Water-Borne Diseases: By week 39: 2020 Total number of acute diarrhea (AD) reported cases in week 39 was (506) cases. Total number of bloody diarrhea reported cases was (BD): (30) cases: distributed on following municipalities (22) Ghat, (4) Albaida, (2) Benghazi, (1) Tobruk and (1) Baniwaleed. Total number of acute jaundice syndrome (AJS) reported cases was (27) Cases distributed on following municipalities (14) Alwahat, (4) Benghazi, (4) Igdabya, (2) Albaida, (2) Ashati and (1) Tripoli. Other Infectious Diseases: Leishmaniasis In Week 39: The number of the cutaneous Leishmaniasis reported cases was (3) cases from Tawergha. FOODPOIS: In Week 39: The number of the food poisoning reported cases was (15) cases from: (4) Mezda (4) Ghat, (3) Benghazi, (3) Ashati and (1) Tobruk. 4 COVED-19: In Week 39 : The number of COVID-19 reported cases was (491) suspected cases: (151) Igdabya, (101) Zliten, (55) Tripoli, (42) Sebha, (30) Oupari, (27) Aljmail, (24) Ashati, (17) Alwahat, (13) Regdalin, (11) Alkoba, (11) Aljofra, (10) Ghat, (9) Benghazi, (9) Alkofra, and (8) Almarij. Summary of reported cases Week 39: 2020 № of Percentage from Percentage from Disease Cases Consultation EWARN AURI 2122 15.747% 58.441% ALRI 426 3.161% 11.732% AD 506 3.755% 13.936% BD 30 0.223% 0.826% AJS 27 0.200% 0.744% Leishmaniasis 3 0.022% 0.083% Measles 3 0.022% 0.083% Meningitis 5 0.037% 0.138% Food poisoning 15 0.111% 0.413% Afp 2 0.015% 0.055% Pertussis 1 0.007% 0.028% COVID-19 491 3.644% 13.522% Table 3: Summary of reported cases Week 39: 2020 5 .