Summary:
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Out of 432 functional sentinel sites, 430 (99.5%) have submitted reports this week.
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Out of a total of 383,079 new consultations (162,135 male, 220.944 female) this week, 34% or 130,152 (62,287 male, 67,865 female) consultations were reported due to DEWS targeted diseases.
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Main causes of consultations in this week were Acute Diarrheal Diseases, 27,480 cases (7.2% out of total new consultations) and Pneumonia, 15,251 cases (4% out of total new consultations).
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A total of 196 deaths were reported this week, of which 60 were due to DEWS targeted diseases, which includes 45 Pneumonia deaths, 13 Meningitis/SIC deaths, 1 Measles death and 1 Acute Viral Hepatitis.
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Total of 14 outbreaks reported this week; of which 11 were suspected Measles outbreaks reported from Paktika, Paktya, Zabul, Nangarhar, Kunar and Balkh provinces a suspected Pertussis outbreak reported from Paktika province a suspected Acute viral Hepatitis outbreak in Laghman province and a Conjunctivitis outbreak reported from Hirat province.