Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin Disease Early Warning System and Response in Pakistan
Weekly Bulletin Epidemiological Disease early warning system and response in Pakistan Volume 3, Issue 2, Tuesday 17 January, 2012 Highlights Priority diseases under surveillance Epidemiological week no. 2 (8 to 14 January, 2012) in DEWS • In week 2, 2012, total 74 districts including 2 agencies providing surveillance data to the Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) DEWS on weekly basis from around 1,399 health facilities. Data from mobile teams is reported Acute Jaundice Syndrome (AJS) through sponsoring BHU or RHC. Acute Respiratory Infections (Upper and Lower) (ARI) • A total of 403,874 consultations were reported through DEWS of which 27% were acute respiratory infections (ARI); 5% were Skin disease; 6% were acute diarrhoea; and 4% were sus‐ Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD)/ Sus- pected Cholera pected malaria. Acute Bloody Diarrhoea (BD) • A total of 101 alerts with 5 outbreaks were reported: Altogether 38 alerts for Measles; 18 Other Acute Diarrhoeas (AD) for Neonatal tetanus and tetanus; 17 for Leishmaniasis; 8 for Pertussis; 4 for AWD; 3 for Acute Jaundice Syndrome; 2 for Bloody diarrhoea and 1 for suspected Malaria while 10 for others com‐ Suspected Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) municable diseases. Suspected Malaria (Mal) • In week 2, 2012, five new type‐1 polio cases were confirmed by the laboratory having date Suspected Measles (MS) of onset of paralysis in 2011; one each from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Khyber agency), Suspected Meningitis (MG) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (district Charsadda), Sindh (district Badin), Balochistan (district Khuzdar) and Punjab (district Lahore). This brings the total number of polio cases in 2011 so far to 197 (195 Others type‐1 cases and 2 type‐3 cases) from 60 districts/towns/tribal agencies & areas.
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