Urogenital schistosomiasis outbreak in a basic school, Volta Region, Ghana: a case-control study.

Introduction: schistosomiasis is a neglected parasitic infection caused by nematode worms. It affects approximately 200 million people globally. Prevalence in Ghana is 23.

Utility of early diagnosis, contact tracing and stakeholder engagement in outbreak response in three COVID-19 outbreak settings in Ghana.

Objective: To describe how early case detection, testing and contact tracing measures were deployed by stakeholders in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Ghana - using three outbreak scenarios.

Design: A descriptive assessment of three case studies of COVID-19 outbreaks within three settings that occurred in Ghana from March 13 till the end of June 2020.

Setting: A construction camp, a factory and a training institution in Ghana.

Protracted cholera outbreak in the Central Region, Ghana, 2016.

Objective: On 24th October 2016, the Central Regional Health Directorate received report of a suspected cholera outbreak in the Cape Coast Metropolis (CCM). We investigated to confirm the diagnosis, identify risk factors and implement control measures.

Design: We used a descriptive study followed by 1:2 unmatched case-control study.

Outbreak of foodborne gastroenteritis in a senior high school in South-eastern Ghana: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: On 4th February 2015, a group of Senior High School students from Fanteakwa district presented to the emergency unit of the district hospital with complaints of abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea. All the students had eaten from a specific food vendor and had neither eaten any other common meal that day nor the previous day. A foodborne disease outbreak was suspected.