Serious communicable diseases

Communicable Diseases

Safe management of patients with serious communicable diseases: recent experience with Ebola virus.

Health care workers (HCWs) in the emergency medical services (EMS) and hospital settings often encounter patients infected with dangerous communicable diseases. Such patients are usually managed without fanfare, but when it was announced on 1 August 2014 that 2 American HCWs infected with Ebola virus would return to the United States for treatment, it drew the world’s attention. The means by wh...

Combating non-communicable diseases.

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WHO EMRO | Communicable diseases

The incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases continues to escalate: half the countries in the Region reported a high incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in 2015. WHO responded to an increasing number of outbreaks. These included influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 in Libya, Kuwait and Jordan; avian influenza A (H5N1) in Egypt; MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia and Jordan; chol...

Communicable diseases intelligence.

Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI) is a fortnightly publication of the Australian Department of Human Services and Health and the Communicable Diseases Network of Australia and New Zealand. The Network comprises representatives of the Australian Department of Human Services and Health, the State and Territory health authorities, and other organizations involved in communicable disease sur...