Overview
During week 26, forty seven reporting sites including four refugees, thirty Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps and twelve mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
New reporting sites from south and central Iraq have been added to increase the reporting sites 78.
The total number of consultations reported during this week was 10204 (male=4745 and female=5449) compared to 11624 (male=5239 and female=6385) from the previous reporting week 25.
During week 26, Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) (n=4008), Acute Diarrhea (n=1274) and skin diseases (n=454) were the leading cause of morbidity in all camps.
Proportions of Acute Diarrhea in IDP camps have increased gradually by two percent since week 25 (week 25: 9% and week 26:11%) while proportions of Acute Diarrhea trend in refugee camps has increased by one percent since last week (week 25=7% and week 26=9%).
The trends of lower ARI is generally decreasing with the advent of summer although proportion of upper ARI in week 26 increased by 1% and lower ARI decreased by 1% as well when compared with week 25, (week 25: Upper ARI=88% & Lower ARI=12% and week 26: Upper ARI=89% & Lower ARI=11%).
A total of sixteen alerts were generated by EWARN in week 26, of which two alerts were generated from refugee camps and fourteen from IDP camps. Eight of these alerts were verified positive for further investigation and appropriate response by governorates Departments of Health and WHO while the remaining eight alerts did not follow the case definitions thresholds, (more details are in the Alert/Outbreak Section below)
o Five alerts of suspected sporadic bloody diarrhea cases were discarded and one alert for suspected acute jaundice syndrome did not fulfil the threshold, but the situation is under monitoring.
o Stool samples from suspected acute diarrhea cases, bloody diarrhea and measles were collected by the investigation and response teams and dispatched to the Central Laboratory for confirmation. None of the stool samples were found negative for Vibro Cholera.