AGRI 224 Lecture 17: Nipah Surveillance and Flying Foxes
27 Feb 2019
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Niv was recognized as the cause of severe acute meningoencephalitis in. Since an outbreak had already occurred in malaysia, human cases were identified and diagnosed. Bats were again found to be the animal reservoir, but no intermediate species was found. Physicians in bangladesh are encouraged to report clusters of severe disease to the institute of epidemiology disease control and research (iedcr) at the. Iedcr reviews media reports on a daily basis to catch signs of disease outbreak. Active surveillance is conducted at six government hospitals. Physicians list patients with encephalitis case definition and look for clusters. In 3 of 6 hospitals any patient with encephalitis has serum collected for antibody testing during january-march. Case history involves asking if patient has consumed date palm sap. Following human case, investigative team visits locality of case origination. Following human case, investigative team visits locality of case origination looking for recent animal illness or death.
