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Iraq: Iraq: Early Warning and Disease Surveillance Bulletin - Epidemiological Week 22 Reporting Period: 25 May – 31 May: 2015

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Source: Government of Iraq, World Health Organization
Country: Iraq

Overview

  • During week 22, forty one reporting sites including seven refugee and twenty one Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, and thirteen mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.

  • The total number of consultations reported during the week was 20130 (male=9182 and female=10948) compared to 19712 (male=8774 and female=11108) consultations from the previous reporting week 21.

  • During week 22, Acute respiratory tract infections (ARI) (n=6691), Acute Diarrhea (n=1521) and skin diseases (n=1236) were the leading cause of morbidity in all the camps.

  • A total of thirteen alerts were generated by EWARN in week 22; twelve of which were verified as true for further investigation and appropriate response by Erbil DoH/WHO while the remaining one alert of unexplained fever was discarded as it did not fulfil the case definitions criteria. (Details in Alert/outbreak section).


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