Scraping Unstructured Data to Explore the Relationship between Rainfall Anomalies and Vector-Borne Disease Outbreaks

Flooding can potentially increase the spread of infectious diseases. To enhance good understanding of the health consequences of flooding and facilitate planning for mitigation strategies, deeper consideration of the relationship between flooding and out-break of infectious diseases is required. This paper examines the relationship between occurrence of floods in Kenya and outbreak of infectious diseases and possible interventions. This review intended to build up the quality and comprehensiveness of evidence on infectious diseases arising after flooding incidence in Kenya. An extensive literature review was conducted in 2017, and published literature from 2000 to 2017 was retrieved. This review suggests that infectious disease outbreaks such as waterborne, rodent-borne, and vector-borne diseases have been associated with flooding in Kenya. But there is need for more good quality epidemiological data to cement the evidence. Comprehensive surveillance and risk assessment, early warning systems, emergency planning, and well-coordinated collaborations are essential in reducing future vulnerability to infectious diseases following flooding.

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Assessing the potential impact of vector-borne disease transmission following heavy rainfall events: a mathematical framework

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2018.0272 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 374 (1775) ◽

pp. 20180272 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

G. Chowell ◽

K. Mizumoto ◽

J. M. Banda ◽

S. Poccia ◽

C. Perrings

Keyword(s):

Disease Transmission ◽

Disease Outbreaks ◽

Theme Issue ◽

Rainfall Events ◽

Transmission Season ◽

Vector Borne Disease ◽

Infectious Disease Outbreaks ◽

Vector Borne ◽

The Impact ◽

Heavy Rainfall Events

Predicting the impact of natural disasters such as hurricanes on the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases poses significant challenges. In this paper, we put forward a simple modelling framework to investigate the impact of heavy rainfall events (HREs) on mosquito-borne disease transmission in temperate areas of the world such as the southern coastal areas of the USA. In particular, we explore the impact of the timing of HREs relative to the transmission season via analyses that test the sensitivity of HRE-induced epidemics to variation in the effects of rainfall on the dynamics of mosquito breeding capacity, and the intensity and temporal profile of human population displacement patterns. The recent Hurricane Harvey in Texas motivates the simulations reported. Overall, we find that the impact of vector-borne disease transmission is likely to be greater the earlier the HREs occur in the transmission season. Simulations based on data for Hurricane Harvey suggest that the limited impact it had on vector-borne disease transmission was in part because of when it occurred (late August) relative to the local transmission season, and in part because of the mitigating effect of the displacement of people. We also highlight key data gaps related to models of vector-borne disease transmission in the context of natural disasters. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: approaches and important themes’. This issue is linked with the subsequent theme issue ‘Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: epidemic forecasting and control’.

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Epidemiology of autochthonous dengue virus infection in Japan in 2014 and preparing for future vector-borne disease outbreaks

Medical Entomology and Zoology ◽

10.7601/mez.67.39 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 67 (1) ◽

pp. 39-41

Author(s):

Tomoe Shimada ◽

Atsuhiro Kanayama ◽

Tamano Matsui ◽

Kunio Kawabata ◽

Munehisa Fukusumi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Virus Infection ◽

Dengue Virus ◽

Disease Outbreaks ◽

Dengue Virus Infection ◽

Vector Borne Disease ◽

Vector Borne

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Health promotion and vector-borne disease outbreaks

Health Promotion in Disease Outbreaks and Health Emergencies ◽

10.4324/9781315106885-8 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 115-134

Author(s):

Glenn Laverack

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Disease Outbreaks ◽

Vector Borne Disease ◽

Vector Borne

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Novel tick-borne Rickettsia sp. from wild ticks of Kenya: Implications for emerging vector-borne disease outbreaks

International Journal of Infectious Diseases ◽

10.1016/j.ijid.2016.02.176 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 60 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M.M. Mwamuye ◽

E. Kariuki ◽

D. Omondi ◽

J. Kabii ◽

D. Odongo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Disease Outbreaks ◽

Vector Borne Disease ◽

Vector Borne

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Casual gaming as a means to raise awareness of vector-borne disease risks

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e602182011-022 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Tomás Francisco Yago Vincente ◽

Brian Mullen ◽

Thomas N. Mather ◽

Jean-Yves Herve

Keyword(s):

Vector Borne Disease ◽

Disease Risks ◽

Vector Borne

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Medically Important Vector Borne Disease Control-Botanical Plant Extract Trials

Research in Pharmacy and Health Sciences ◽

10.32463/rphs.2018.v04i04.20 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 513

Author(s):

Rakhshan .

Keyword(s):

Disease Control ◽

Public Health Problem ◽

Major Public Health Problem ◽

Vector Borne Disease ◽

Development Of Resistance ◽

Vector Borne ◽

Synthetic Pesticides ◽

High Level ◽

Continuous Use ◽

Chemical Pesticides

Mosquitoes are vectors of many pathogens which causes serious human diseases like Malaria, Filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Yellow fever and Zika virus which constitute a major public health problem globally. Mosquito borne diseases cause high level of economic impact all over the world and result in millions of death every year. They infect around 700,000,000 people annually worldwide and 40,000,000 only in India. The continuous use of synthetic pesticides to control vector mosquitoes has caused physiological resistance, toxic effect on human health, environmental pollution and addition to these, its adverse effects can be observed on non-target organisms. Synthetic chemical pesticides have been proved to be effective, but overall in last 5 decades indiscriminate use of synthetic pesticides against vector borne disease control have originated several ecological issues due to their residual accumulation and development of resistance in target vectors and their chronic effects.

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