Publications by authors named "Tran Cong Dai"
Epidemiology of dengue reported in the World Health Organization's Western Pacific Region, 2013-2019.
Western Pac Surveill Response J
April 2023
Article Synopsis
- The global burden of dengue increased significantly over 20 years, with around 70% of cases occurring in Asia, as of 2019.
- In the Western Pacific Region, reported dengue cases rose from 430,023 in 2013 to over 1 million in 2019, highlighting a concerning trend in outbreak frequency.
- The report emphasizes the need for improved dengue surveillance systems to monitor the disease effectively, especially following the introduction of new serotypes that have led to outbreaks in previously unaffected areas.
Malaria trends and challenges in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
July 2009
This report provides an overview of the epidemiological patterns of malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) from 1998 to 2007, and highlights critical challenges facing national malaria control programs and partners in effort to build on their successes as they move towards malaria pre-elimination and elimination as a programmatic goal. Epidemiological data provided by malaria programs show a drastic decline in malaria deaths and confirmed malaria positive cases over the last 10 years in the GMS. More than half of confirmed malaria cases and deaths recorded in the GMS occur in Myanmar, however, reporting methods and data management are not comparable between countries despite effort made by WHO to harmonize data collection, analysis and reporting among WHO Member States.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA baseline epidemiological survey for parasite infections was conducted between December 2007 and January 2008 in 155 villagers in a rural commune in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam. The prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm infection was 13.5%, 45.
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