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C: Examples of International Outbreak Assistance |
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During the 1990s, CDC participated in numerous outbreak investigations in
other countries, sometimes as part of an international WHO team and sometimes
in direct response to a request from an affected nation. These investigations
included
1990: Japanese encephalitis in Saipan
1990: Epidemic dysentery in Burundi
1991: Hepatitis E in Kenya and Somalia
1991-92: Epidemic dysentery in Zambia
1991: Cholera in Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru
1991: Cholera in Brazil
1991: Polio in Romania
1991: Polio in Bulgaria
1992: Polio in Jordan
1992-96: Diphtheria in Ukraine
1993-96: Diphtheria in Russia
1993: Polio in Namibia
1993: Polio in Uzbekistan
1994: Dengue in Nicaragua
1994: Plague in India
1994-95: Measles in Palau, Guam, and the Federated States of Micronesia
1995: Diphtheria in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and
Turkmenistan
1995: Leptosporosis in Nicaragua
1995: Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire)
1996: Epidemic dysentery in South Africa
1996: West Nile encephalitis in Romania
1996: Typhoid fever in Tadjikistan
1996: E. coli O157:H7 infection in Japan
1996: Polio in Albania
1997: Polio in Turkey
1997: Botulism in Argentina
1997: Cholera in Kenya
1997: Avian influenza in Hong Kong
1997: Rift Valley fever in Kenya
1997: O’nyong-nyong fever in Uganda
1997: Nosocomial HIV-associated multidrug-resistant TB in Argentina
1997: Multidrug-resistant TB in Colombia
1998: Measles in Romania
1998: Bolivian hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia
1998: Plague in Ecuador
1998: Dengue in Palau
1998: Dengue in Yap
1998: Amebiasis in the Republic of Georgia
1998-99: Influenza outbreaks on cruise ships (U.S.-Canada)
1999: Louseborne relapsing fever in southern Sudan
1999: Dengue fever on U.S.-Mexico border
1999: Epidemic poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis in Brazil
1999: Typhoid fever in Nauru
1999: Nipah virus encephalitis in Malaysia
1999: Marburg fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1999: Polio in Angola
1999: Measles in Costa Rica
1999-2000: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Panama
2000: Polio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2000: Tularemia in Kosovo
2000: Cholera in Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia
2000: Rift Valley fever in Saudi Arabia and Yemen
2000: Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Uganda
2000: Measles in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Bolivia
2000: Polio in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
2000: Measles in Zambia
2000: Diphtheria in Latvia
2000: Dengue hemorrhagic fever in El Salvador Previous
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