ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2015
Reduced vaccination and the risk of measles and other childhood infections post-Ebola.
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115 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Utilization of non-Ebola health care services during Ebola outbreaks: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2019Pooled it
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Abstract
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has caused substantial morbidity and mortality. The outbreak has also disrupted health care services, including childhood vaccinations, creating a second public health crisis. We project that after 6 to 18 months of disruptions, a large connected cluster of children unvaccinated for measles will accumulate across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. This pool of susceptibility increases the expected size of a regional measles outbreak from 127,000 to 227,000 cases after 18 months, resulting in 2000 to 16,000 additional deaths (comparable to the numbers of Ebola deaths reported thus far). There is a clear path to avoiding outbreaks of childhood vaccine-preventable diseases once the threat of Ebola begins to recede: an aggressive regional vaccination campaign aimed at age groups left unprotected because of health care disruptions.
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