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News Scan for Oct 14, 2013
Cost of imported measles; More cholera in Mexico
Filed Under:
Measles; Cholera
CDC: 2011 measles outbreaks cost public health up to $5 million
The United States experienced a marked increase in imported measles cases in 2011. A new analysis of 16 outbreaks that year involving imported measles found that they cost public health agencies from $2.7 million to $5.3 million.
Writing today in Vaccine, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said they analyzed data from the outbreaks (defined as three or more epidemiologically linked cases), which totaled 107 confirmed cases.
The cumulative estimated contacts of these cases ranged from 8,936 to 17,450, which required from 42,635 to 83,133 hours of work by local and state public health officials. From those numbers, the authors estimated the monetary public health cost of the outbreaks.
"Investigating and responding to measles outbreaks imposes a significant economic burden on local and state health institutions," they conclude.
Oct 14 Vaccine abstract
Cholera case count in Mexico reaches 159
The count of cholera cases in a Mexican outbreak that began about a month ago has reached 159, including one death, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported on Oct 12.
Hidalgo state has had 145 cases, with the rest scattered among the Federal District and the states of Mexico, San Luis Potosi, and Veracruz, PAHO said. Forty-three patients (27%) have been hospitalized. Contaminated river water is the probable source of the outbreak in Hidalgo, the agency said.
The current outbreak marks the first local transmission of cholera in Mexico since 2001, when a 10-year-old epidemic ended, the statement said. The Vibrio cholera strain circulating in Mexico is more than a 95% match for the strain circulating in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba.
The case count in Haiti's cholera epidemic, which began 3 years ago this month, has reached 679,637, with 8,297 deaths, according to PAHO. That represents an increase of 797 cases and 8 deaths since an Oct 1 PAHO update.
Oct 12 PAHO update
News Scan for Oct 14, 2013
Cost of imported measles; More cholera in Mexico
Filed Under:
Measles; Cholera
CDC: 2011 measles outbreaks cost public health up to $5 million
The United States experienced a marked increase in imported measles cases in 2011. A new analysis of 16 outbreaks that year involving imported measles found that they cost public health agencies from $2.7 million to $5.3 million.
Writing today in Vaccine, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said they analyzed data from the outbreaks (defined as three or more epidemiologically linked cases), which totaled 107 confirmed cases.
The cumulative estimated contacts of these cases ranged from 8,936 to 17,450, which required from 42,635 to 83,133 hours of work by local and state public health officials. From those numbers, the authors estimated the monetary public health cost of the outbreaks.
"Investigating and responding to measles outbreaks imposes a significant economic burden on local and state health institutions," they conclude.
Oct 14 Vaccine abstract
Cholera case count in Mexico reaches 159
The count of cholera cases in a Mexican outbreak that began about a month ago has reached 159, including one death, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported on Oct 12.
Hidalgo state has had 145 cases, with the rest scattered among the Federal District and the states of Mexico, San Luis Potosi, and Veracruz, PAHO said. Forty-three patients (27%) have been hospitalized. Contaminated river water is the probable source of the outbreak in Hidalgo, the agency said.
The current outbreak marks the first local transmission of cholera in Mexico since 2001, when a 10-year-old epidemic ended, the statement said. The Vibrio cholera strain circulating in Mexico is more than a 95% match for the strain circulating in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba.
The case count in Haiti's cholera epidemic, which began 3 years ago this month, has reached 679,637, with 8,297 deaths, according to PAHO. That represents an increase of 797 cases and 8 deaths since an Oct 1 PAHO update.
Oct 12 PAHO update