Publications by authors named "Woubayehu Kassa"
Article Synopsis
- - Influenza is a viral respiratory illness causing severe symptoms and significant annual mortality worldwide, with Ethiopia lacking comprehensive data on its impact despite establishing surveillance in 2008.
- - The study utilized influenza surveillance data from 2009-2015, collecting throat-swab samples from patients with influenza-like and severe respiratory illness to monitor and characterize viral strains.
- - Out of nearly 5,000 samples tested, about 20.6% were positive for influenza, with higher positivity rates in older children and young adults, peaking in November; the strains identified included seasonal influenza A(H3N2) and A(H1N1)pdm2009.
Background: Yellow fever (YF) is a viral hemorrhagic fever, endemic in the tropical forests of Africa and Central and South America. The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes infected with the yellow fever virus (YFV). Ethiopia was affected by the largest YF outbreak since the vaccination era during 1960-1962.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthiopia launched influenza surveillance in November 2008. By October 2010, 176 patients evaluated at 5 sentinel health facilities in Addis Ababa met case definitions for influenza-like illness or severe acute respiratory illness (SARI). Most patients (131 [74%]) were children aged 0-4 years.
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