Epidemiological investigation of a cholera outbreak in Nepal-India border communities: Public health implications.

Objectives: On October 4, 2021, a cholera outbreak was reported in Kapilvastu District, one of Nepal's 26 districts bordering India. This study examined the outbreak's characteristics, response efforts, and the challenges faced.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was applied for the outbreak investigation.

A rare case of Behcet's disease in Nepal: multisystem manifestations and diagnostic challenges.

Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by a relapsing and remitting course and multisystem involvement. The authors present a case report of a 20-year-old male who presented with bilateral knee joint pain, oral and genital ulcers, and papulopustular skin lesions. The patient's clinical history, physical examination, laboratory findings, and biopsy results were consistent with the diagnosis of BD.

A case of acute encephalitis syndrome and cranial nerve palsy secondary to scrub typhus: A rare presentation from Western Nepal.

Key Clinical Message: This case report highlights the importance of considering scrub typhus as a differential diagnosis for acute encephalitis with cranial nerve palsy in the region of the tsutsugamushi triangle.

Abstract: Scrub typhus is a zoonotic rickettsiosis caused by the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi. This disease is endemic to a region called the tsutsugamushi triangle that extends from Southeast Asia to the Pacific Ocean.

COVID-19 Amongst Travelers at Points of Entry in Nepal: Screening, Testing, Diagnosis and Isolation Practices.

WHO recommends surveillance for COVID-19 among travelers at Points of Entry (POE) to countries. At 13 selected POE at the Nepal-India border, between March 2021 and July 2021, we describe the screening, testing, diagnosis and isolation practices of COVID-19 amongst travelers. Those who stayed in India or elsewhere for > one day and those who did not have a negative RT-PCR result within the last 72 h of travel were tested for COVID-19 with rapid antigen diagnostic tests.

Childhood Tuberculosis: An Under Prioritized Disease in Nepal.

Globally, childhood tuberculosis constitutes up to 10% of overall tuberculosis cases. In Nepal, childhood tuberculosis has remained around 5.5% of overall tuberculosis cases and has remained stagnant over the years.

Burden of tobacco in Nepal: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2017.

Objective: This study systematically reviews the data extracted from the Global Burden of Disease Study and sets out to assess the age-specific and sex-specific mortality and disability attributable to different forms of tobacco from 1990 to 2017, for Nepal.

Design: This cross-sectional study extracted data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's Global Burden of Disease database, then was quantitatively analysed to show the trends and patterns of prevalence of tobacco use, deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributable to tobacco use from different diseases from the year 1990 to 2017 in Nepal.

Setting: Nepal.

The goal to end TB- strategy: Public private partnership. Is it only private sector to blame?

National Strategic Plan for tuberculosis care and control, Nepal ( 2016-2021) envisions ambitious target of decreasing TB incidence by 20% by 2021.In achieving so it has to identify and manage 20,000 more cases by 2021 compared to 2015. Contribution of private sector which roughly accounts to 25% of all the burden of tuberculosis cases in Nepal will be vitally important along with effective public private partnership.

Respiratory Problems among Workers of Udayapur Cement Factory in Eastern Nepal.

Background: There have been very limited studies regarding health of the cement factory workers in Nepal. This study aimed to find out the prevalence of health problems and the factors associated with respiratory symptoms among the workers of Udayapur cement factory.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted from March to August 2015 in Udayapur cement factory in eastern Nepal.

Respiratory Disorders among Dust Exposed Workers.

Introduction: Exposure to dusts and hard physical work is common in developing industrialized countries. Acute and chronic respiratory illnesses are highly been reported from jute and textile industry. This study was undertaken to explore status of respiratory health among the workers of jute and textile industries.

Facilitators and barriers to healthy eating in a worksite cafeteria: a qualitative study from Nepal.

Objective: Worksite interventions can serve as a potential platform for translating existing knowledge of diabetes prevention and facilitate healthy food choices. The study explored perceptions about healthy eating as well as potential facilitators and barriers to healthy eating among employees in a wire manufacturing factory in Nepal.

Methods And Materials: We conducted a cross-sectional exploratory qualitative study in a wire manufacturing industry in eastern Nepal.