Determinants of Dehydration Status and Associated Risk Factors of Cholera Outbreak in Oromia, Ethiopia
Endale Alemayehu,
Tsigereda Tilahun,
Eshetu Mebrate
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
Pages:
60-64
Received:
18 June 2020
Accepted:
24 July 2020
Published:
10 August 2020
Abstract: Introductions: Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by infection of the intestine with the gram-negative bacteria Vibrio cholera. According to updated global burden of cholera estimate 2019 in Ethiopia 68,805,272 populations are at risk of cholera with incidence rate of 4 per 1000 population and case fatality of 3.8% estimated annual number of cases 275,221. Methods: The main objective of this study is to identify the significant risk factors of dehydration status of cholera outbreak in Oromia regional state of Ethiopia. Ordinal logistic regression was used to model the data by incorporating the assumption behind this novel model. Results: The results of the study indicated that of the total 965 cholera patients, most of them 560 (58%) were severely dehydrated by cholera. The overall goodness of model (p-valu=0.07) shows that the model fits the data well. Besides, the proportional odds assumption also revealed that the slop coefficients in the model are the same across dehydration status (p-value=0.094). For those have history of travel, the odds of severely dehydrated versus the combined some dehydrated and no dehydrated was exp (1.133804)=3.11 times higher than those have no history of travel (p-value<0.01). All the other factors like history of contact with other patients, other sick patients in the family, Intravenous and Antibiotics drugs are statistically significant with 5% level of significance to determine the status of dehydration. Conclusions: The ordinal logistic regression was fitted the data well and most of the included factors were significant for the dehydration status of cholera outbreak.
Abstract: Introductions: Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by infection of the intestine with the gram-negative bacteria Vibrio cholera. According to updated global burden of cholera estimate 2019 in Ethiopia 68,805,272 populations are at risk of cholera with incidence rate of 4 per 1000 population and case fatality of 3.8% estimated annual number of cas...
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Correlation of Climate Factors with the COVID-19 Pandemic in USA
Muhammad Mohsinul Hoque,
Umme Saima,
Sadia Sultana Shoshi
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
Pages:
65-69
Received:
17 July 2020
Accepted:
17 August 2020
Published:
3 September 2020
Abstract: The coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus which was first identified in Wuhan, a city of Eastern China. What began as an epidemic mostly constrained to China has now become a worldwide pandemic. Previous studies on airborne viruses comparable to coronavirus show that there is a notable relationship between the climate indicators and transmission of viruses. This study was conducted to observe the relationships of climate factors on the number of cases and the number of deaths by Coronavirus Disease -19 (COVID-19) and the spread of it in the USA. The datasets for this research have been collected from the regular updates of The New York Times, weather2visit, Current results (weather and science fact), and Americas Health Rankings from 1 April 2020 to 30 April 2020. Findings of our study observed that the highest number of infected people and death was found in New York in April 2020. Kendall’s tau-b and Spearman test of correlation reveals that minimum temperature, average temperature, absolute humidity, and air pollution are significantly correlated with the transmission of this virus and the sum of deaths by COVID-19. The verdict of this article will boost the native and international health organizations to understand the spread of COVID-19 in different environmental situations.
Abstract: The coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus which was first identified in Wuhan, a city of Eastern China. What began as an epidemic mostly constrained to China has now become a worldwide pandemic. Previous studies on airborne viruses comparable to coronavirus show that there is a notable relationship between the climate i...
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