Aluisio AR, Teicher CL, Wiskel T, Guy A, Levine AC
2016-11-16 • PLoS Currents
2016-11-16 • PLoS Currents
BACKGROUND Lower extremity trauma during earthquakes accounts for the largest burden of geophysical disaster-related injuries. Insufficient pain management is common in disaster sett...
Gil Cuesta J, Mukembe N, Valentiner-Branth P, Stefanoff P, Lenglet AD
2015-02-02 • PLoS Currents
2015-02-02 • PLoS Currents
Background Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C (NmC) outbreaks occur infrequently in the African meningitis belt; the most recent report of an outbreak of this serogroup was in Burkina Fa...
Pereira AL, Southgate R, Ahmed H, Oconner P, Cramond V, et al.
2018-02-02 • PLoS Currents
2018-02-02 • PLoS Currents
In 2015, following an influx of population into Kobanê in northern Syria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with the Kobanê Health Administration (KHA) initiated primary he...
Funk A, Uadiale K, Kamau C, Caugant DA, Ango U, et al.
2014-12-29 • PLoS Currents
2014-12-29 • PLoS Currents
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has committed to eliminate measles by 2020. In 2013, in response to a large outbreak, Médecins Sans Frontières conducted a mass vaccination campaig...
Camacho A, Kucharski AJ, Aki-Sawyerr Y, White M, Flasche S, et al.
2015-02-10 • PLoS Currents
2015-02-10 • PLoS Currents
Between August and November 2014, the incidence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) rose dramatically in several districts of Sierra Leone. As a result, the number of cases exceeded the capacit...
BACKGROUND In January 2010, Haiti was struck by a powerful earthquake, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands and leaving millions homeless. In order to better understand the sev...
Stewart BT, Wong EG, Papillon-Smith J, Trelles Centurion M, Dominguez LB, et al.
2015-03-27 • PLoS Currents
2015-03-27 • PLoS Currents
Surgical capacity assessments in low-income countries have demonstrated critical deficiencies. Though vital for planning capacity improvements, these assessments are resource intensive a...
INTRODUCTION Between July 2014 and September 2015, a neonatal care unit (NCU) in Port Au Prince, Haiti, experienced an outbreak of sepsis, most probably due to nosocomial transmissio...
