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Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin - Disease early warning system and response in Pakistan, Volume 5, Issue 31, Wednesday 6 August 2014

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Epidemiological week no. 31 (27 July - 2 Aug 2014)

• CCHF: During this week, 4 suspected CCHF cases with 1 death have been reported from Balochistan province.

• In this week, 82 out of 87 districts and 2,437 out of 3,590 health facilities have reported to Disease Early Warning System (DEWS), compared to 70 districts with 2,366 health facilities shared weekly data in week 30, 2014.

• A total of 413,036 patients consultations reported in this week 31, 2014. The timeliness decreased compared with last week due to Eid holidays.

• In this week, a total of 9 alerts generated and timely responded. Altogether 4 alerts each for CCHF and NNT; while 1 for Leishma‐ niasis.