- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- South Africa
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Quite a few more than I listed yesterday.
Latest EVD figures form the DRC. Click on image to enlarge. |
Screenshot from SitRep No.5.[1] Click on image to enlarge. |
As I alluded to yesterday, these efforts are not very effective at actually picking up EVD cases from among a milieu of other febrile illness that stumble through a port of entry.
Studies - some of which are summed up in this Canadian review [2] - are usually not supportive of any practical benefit from using fever as a screening tool to pick out a single disease in passing travellers.[3,4,5]
However, these screening efforts do play a role in making citizens and politicians feel better and more useful. The precautions may also be helpful in keeping travel flowing.[6] Whether the continued flow of travel during an epidemic that may leak from a hotzone is a good thing or not will no doubt (once again) be dissected after a more more transmissible pathogen sweeps across the world I expect.
References....
- http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/255463/1/EbolaDRC-1652017-eng.pdf?ua=1
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0071254/
- http://afludiary.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/study-thermal-scanners-pandemic.html
- http://afludiary.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/eid-journal-evaluating-border-entry.html
- http://afludiary.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/why-airport-screening-cant-stop-mers.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27390092
- http://www.afro.who.int/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=10836&Itemid=2593
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