ReviewFrontiers in public health2023
Cholera outbreak in Syria amid humanitarian crisis: the epidemic threat, future health implications, and response strategy - a review.
Review in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The convergence of health system, climate, and social pathways in Malawi's 2022-2024 cholera outbreak - A qualitative assessment.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Multicountry genomic analysis underscores regional cholera spread in Africa.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Gut bacteria-derived sphingolipids alter innate immune responses to oral cholera vaccine antigens.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Implementation of integrated disease surveillance and response systems in West Africa: lessons learned and future directions.BMJ health & care informatics · 2025Review
- Post-crisis health reality and wellbeing of children within Syria: a scoping review of research from 2012 to 2024.Conflict and health · 2025Review
- Migratory Wave due to Conflicts: Risk of Increased Infection From Zoonotic Diseases.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Review
- Attitude towards cholera vaccination and its related factors in Jordan amid the 2022 Middle East outbreak.BMC public health · 2024Article
- An unusual two-strain cholera outbreak in Lebanon, 2022-2023: a genomic epidemiology study.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Cholera outbreak trends in Nigeria: policy recommendations and innovative approaches to prevention and treatment.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
The war in Syria, which started over 11 years ago, has devastated the country's water sources, healthcare system, and other vital facilities for healthy living. The country is vulnerable to outbreaks, especially epidemic-prone ones like cholera, due to its fragile health system. Syria experienced its last hit of cholera in 2009, which led to the deaths of several Syrian children and affected about 1,000 people. The current cholera resurgence in Syria calls for public concern. Considering the poor access to clean water, the forced relocation of people, and other destruction caused by the war, these factors have exposed Syrian children to infectious diseases like cholera. We argued for more efforts toward the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in the country. We also pointed out the need for proper education and sensitization campaigns using all available resources to educate the populace, mass chlorination of wells, mapping vulnerable areas, and implementing WASH while encouraging vaccination coverage for cholera as a strategy to reduce its incidence. Improving the national surveillance systems will aid in the timely and appropriate reporting of any outbreak. Again, more negotiations should be done to seek a lasting solution to ending the war and restoring peace and serenity in the country.
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