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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin - Disease early warning system and response in Pakistan, Volume 5, Issue 2, 15 January 2014

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Epidemiological week no. 2 (5 to 11 Jan 2014)

• Dengue fever: During this week, 28 Dengue fever cases have been reported from province Sindh. The outbreaks are being responded jointly.

• In this week, 77 districts and 2,287 health facilities have reported to Disease Early Warning System (DEWS), compared to 74 districts with 2,291 health facilities shared weekly data in week 1, 2014 to the DEWS.

• Total 772,014 patients consultations reported this week 2, 2014 compared with 743,342 consultations in week 1, 2014.

• In this week, a total of 72 alerts identified and timely responded. Altogether 35 alerts were for Measles; 13 for Leishmaniasis; 12 for NNT; 6 for Typhoid; 2 for Bloody diarrhoea; while 1 each for Acute watery diarrhoea, Acute diarrhoea, CCHF and Pertussis.