Kenya – Somalia: Border Reopens

Pastoralism in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia:

Outbreak of Poliomyelitis — Somalia and Kenya, May 2013

On May 9, 2013, the Somalia Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a confirmed wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case in a girl aged 32 months from Mogadishu (Banadir Region), with onset of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) on April 18, 2013. Subsequently, eight additional WPV1 cases have been confirmed in Somalia, seven in Banadir Region and one in Bay Region. These are th...

Evaluation of the Field Performance of ImmunoCard STAT!® Rapid Diagnostic Test for Rotavirus in Dadaab Refugee Camp and at the Kenya–Somalia Border

AbstractRotavirus commonly causes diarrhea in children, leading to hospitalization and even death. Rapid diagnostic tests are feasible alternatives for determining rotavirus outbreaks in refugee camps that have inadequate laboratory capacity. We evaluated the field performance of ImmunoCard STAT!® Rotavirus (ICS-RV) in Dadaab Refugee Camp and at the Kenya-Somalia border. From May to December 20...

Recent Chikungunya Virus Infection in 2 Travelers Returning from Mogadishu, Somalia, to Italy, 2016

6. Ministry of Health Kenya. We shall also conduct a cross border meeting with Somalia & Ethiopia on #Chikungunya in order to effectively manage the situation [cited 2016 Jul 19]. 7. Ministry of Health Kenya. It is important to coordinate intervention efforts with Somalia & Ethiopia given that Somalia recently experienced a #Chikungunya outbreak [cited 2016 Jul 29].

Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch

Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life. However, research has shown that histone-deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC inhibitors) enable adult mice to establish perceptual preferences that are otherwise impossible to acquire after youth. In humans, we found that adult men who t...