ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2018
Zika Virus Outbreak, Barbados, 2015-2016.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Trends in emerging vector-borne viral infections and their outcome in children over two decades.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- Co-learning during the co-creation of a dengue early warning system for the health sector in Barbados.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Viral metagenomics reveals the presence of novel Zika virus variants in Aedes mosquitoes from Barbados.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Epidemiologic and spatiotemporal trends of Zika Virus disease during the 2016 epidemic in Puerto Rico.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Spatiotemporal Tools for Emerging and Endemic Disease Hotspots in Small Areas: An Analysis of Dengue and Chikungunya in Barbados, 2013-2016.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Co-developing climate services for public health: Stakeholder needs and perceptions for the prevention and control of Aedes-transmitted diseases in the Caribbean.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Nonlinear and delayed impacts of climate on dengue risk in Barbados: A modelling study.PLoS medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
Barbados is a Caribbean island country of approximately 285,000 people, with a thriving tourism industry. In 2015, Zika spread rapidly throughout the Americas, and its proliferation through the Caribbean islands followed suit. Barbados reported its first confirmed autochthonous Zika transmission to the Pan American Health Organization in January 2016, a month before the global public health emergency was declared. After detection of suspected Zika cases on Barbados in 2015, 926 individuals were described as suspected cases, and 147 laboratory-confirmed cases were reported through December 2016, the end of the most recent epidemiological year. In this short report, we describe the epidemiological characteristics of 926 clinical case records that were originally suspected as cases of Zika, and which were subsequently sent for testing and confirmation; 147 were found positive for Zika, using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction methods, another 276 tested negative, and the remaining 503 were either pending results or still in the suspected category. Women were represented at about twice the rate of men in case records where gender was reported (71.9%), and confirmed cases (78.2%), and 19 of the confirmed positive cases were children under the age of 10.
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