ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Africa's Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance.
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- Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among underserved pastoralist communities in Kajiado County, Kenya: 2020-2022.PloS one · 2024Article
- Using One Health assessments to leverage endemic disease frameworks for emerging zoonotic disease threats in Libya.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Strengthening global health security by improving disease surveillance in remote rural areas of low-income and middle-income countries.The Lancet. Global health · 2022Review
- Consequences of COVID-19 on the Reindeer Husbandry in Norway: a Pilot Study Among Management Staff and Herders.Human ecology: an interdisciplinary journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
The effects of COVID-19 have gone undocumented in nomadic pastoralist communities across Africa, which are largely invisible to health surveillance systems despite the fact that they are of key significance in the setting of emerging infectious disease. We expose these landscapes as a "blind spot" in global health surveillance, elaborate on the ways in which current health surveillance infrastructure is ill-equipped to capture pastoralist populations and the animals with which they coexist, and highlight the consequential risks of inadequate surveillance among pastoralists and their livestock to global health. As a platform for further dialogue, we present concrete solutions to address this gap.
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