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Trop Med Health
January 2025
School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia.
Background: Oromia regional state experiencing cholera outbreaks in a protracted pattern despite various interventions at local and regional levels. This study aimed to examine the implementation of Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) activities for cholera outbreak control in the region.
Methods: We conducted a quantitative and qualitative mixed-method study.
BMC Public Health
December 2024
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Nationalestraat 155, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium.
Background: In October 2021, a large outbreak of cholera was declared in Cameroon, disproportionately affecting the Southwest region, one of 10 administrative regions in the country. In this region, the cases were concentrated in three major cities where a humanitarian crisis had concomitantly led to an influx of internally displaced persons. Meanwhile, across the border, Nigeria was facing an unprecedented cholera outbreak.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cholera remains a major (and increasing) global public health problem. Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been a major cholera hotspot in Africa since 1994 and is currently experiencing one of the largest outbreaks in the world. This article contributes to the existing scholarship on cholera risk by utilizing a variety of qualitative research methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVet Med Int
December 2024
Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Ethiopia, with an estimated chicken population of 17 million, serves as a source of high-quality animal protein, helping to reduce malnutrition, improve nutritional status, and provide food and food products. However, Ethiopia has not fully leveraged the value of chicken production due to various bacterial diseases, with fowl cholera (FC) being the most common. Therefore, the objective of this review is to highlight the current trends in the diagnosis of FC in chickens and asses its phenotypic drug resistance patterns in Gondar City.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComput Biol Med
January 2025
Department of Health Informatics, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51452, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address:
Severe gastrointestinal infections and watery diseases like cholera are still a major worldwide medical concern in the developing nations. A mathematical system contains some necessary dynamics based on the cholera spread to investigate the influence of public health education movements along with treatment and vaccination as control policies in restraining the infection. The cholera disease system with public health mediations divide the density of human population into seven categories based on the status of diseases, who are susceptible, educated, vaccinated, quarantined, infected, treated and removed individuals along with the aquatic bacteria population.
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