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Iraq: Early Warning and Disease Surveillance Bulletin - Epidemiological Week 21 Reporting Period: 18 May– 24 May: 2015

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Overview

  • During week 21, forty reporting sites including seven Refugee and twenty two Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, and eleven mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.

  • The total number of consultations reported during the week was 19712 (male=8774 and female=11108) compared to 19548 (male=8781 and female=10767) consultations from the previous reporting week 21.

  • During week 21, Acute respiratory tract infections (ARI) (n=7732), Acute Diarrhea (n=1354) and skin diseases (n=1333) were the leading cause of morbidity in all the camps.

  • A total of eleven alerts were generated by EWARN in week 21; ten of these were verified as true for further investigation and appropriate response by Erbil DoH/WHO while the remaining one alert of unexplained fever were discarded as they did not fulfil the case definitions criteria, (more details is in Alert/outbreak section)