Are we prepared for emerging and re-emerging diseases? Experience and lessons from epidemics that occurred in Tanzania during the last five decades

Tanzania Journal of Health Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5 SUPPL.ISS, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Karimuribo, Esron D ^a   Mboera, Leonard E G ^b   Mbugi, Erasto ^c   Simba, Azma ^d   Kivaria, Fredrick M ^e   Mmbuji, Peter ^d   Rweyemamu, Mark M ^a  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Tanzania)

^e Ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Emerging and re emerging infectious diseases; Outbreak; Preparedness; Tanzania; Trends

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTHRAX; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTAGIOUS PLEUROPNEUMONIA; DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; GIRAFFE EAR DISEASE; GIRAFFE SKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); MEASLES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS; RABIES; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RUBELLA; SKIN DISEASE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84859449490     PISSN: 18216404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/thrb.v13i5.8     Document Type: Review

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