Publications by authors named "G Dabrera"
Article Synopsis
- The mean standard deviation (MSD) method was created to measure COVID-19 activity levels.
- It was tested against the established moving epidemic method (MEM) for influenza, yielding similar results.
- The MSD method is useful for assessing activity levels of respiratory viruses, especially when there's limited historical data or when multiple viruses are present.
Background: By March, 2023, 54 countries, areas, and territories (hereafter CAT) in the WHO European Region had reported more than 2·2 million COVID-19-related deaths to the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Here, we estimated how many lives were directly saved by vaccinating adults in the WHO European Region from December, 2020, to March, 2023.
Methods: In this retrospective surveillance study, we estimated the number of lives directly saved by age group, vaccine dose, and circulating variant-of-concern (VOC) period, regionally and nationally, using weekly data on COVID-19 mortality and infection, COVID-19 vaccination uptake, and SARS-CoV-2 virus characterisations by lineage downloaded from The European Surveillance System on June 11, 2023, as well as vaccine effectiveness data from the literature.
H5 and H9 avian influenza - potential re-emergent zoonotic threats to humans.
Curr Opin Infect Dis
October 2024
Purpose Of Review: This review aims to discuss the current state of human infections with Avian Influenza A (H5) and (H9) viruses, to support awareness of the global epidemiology among clinicians and public health professionals interested in emerging respiratory infections.
Recent Findings: Among increasing numbers of detections in avian species of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) clade 2.3.