What is it about?
Migratory Nomads are in danger of getting and spreading Brucellosis, a disease that is shared between animals and Human. In Iran, more than 1 million migratory nomads have a seasonal pattern of life through migration from hot to the cold ares in spring and summer and vice versa in the autumn and winter seasons. Therefore, holding an active screening and surveillance system for early diagnosis and treatment of this disease among this high risk population is both necessary and cost effective. This is our main message in this article that can be extended to other out of reach populations in each country.
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Why is it important?
Establishment of a sentinel kind of surveillance system for screening and rapid detection and treatment of any disease in out of reach populations aimed to confront to potentially epidemic events.
Perspectives
I think brucellosis is become more and more common in the next years in the middle east countries that are involved in large scale migration or natural disasters such as drought. Eradication of such important and expensive disease needs a global attention and multidisciplinary interventions by public, government and media parts.
Dr Behnam BH Honarvar
Health Institute, Health Policy Research Center,Shiraz,Iran
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This page is a summary of: Brucellosis as a neglected disease in a neglected population: a seroepidemiological study of migratory nomads in the Fars province of Iran, Epidemiology and Infection, November 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268816002600.
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