Signatures of Cholera Outbreak during the Yemeni Civil War, 2016-2019.

ABSTRACT: The Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) created a strategy for early outbreak detection, hotspot identification, and resource mobilization coordination in response to the Yemeni cholera epidemic. This strategy requires a systematic approach for defining and classifying outbreak signatures, or the profile of an epidemic curve and its features. We used publicly available data to quantify outbreak features of the ongoing cholera epidemic in Yemen and clustered governorates using an adaptive time series methodology. We characterized outbreak signatures and identified clusters using a weekly time series of cholera rates in 20 Yemeni governorates and nationally from 4 September 2016 through 29 December 2019 as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO). We quantified critical point

SUBMITTER: Simpson RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8744546 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature