Fourth meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Acute Respiratory Infection Surveillance (EMARIS) network and first scientific conference on acute respiratory infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 11-14 December, 2017, Amman, Jordan
Fourth meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Acute Respiratory Infection Surveillance (EMARIS) network and first scientific conference on acute respiratory infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 11-14 December, 2017, Amman, Jordan
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10.1016/j.jiph.2020.02.031
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
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6.7
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Khan, Wasiq Mehmood
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Abubakar, Abdinasir;Barakat, Amal;Khan, Wasiq Mehmood
流感在全世界造成严重的发病率和死亡率。流感病毒具有迅速演变和传播的能力，对全球公共卫生具有重要意义。过去10年来，由于各国、世卫组织及其伙伴之间的合作努力，关于世界卫生组织东地中海区域各国流感负担、季节性和风险因素的信息正在出现。东地中海急性呼吸道感染监测网络第四次会议于2017年12月11日至14日在约旦安曼举行。会议审查了各国在监测和应对季节性、人畜共患和大流行性流感领域报告的进展和成就。同时举行了东地中海区域首届急性呼吸道感染科学会议，并介绍了该区域38名年轻研究人员关于流行病学和病毒学监测、疫情发现和应对、动物与人接触的流感、控制呼吸道疾病和大流行性流感威胁的新疫苗的使用和功效的摘要。会议确定了若干挑战和方法，以提高流感监测系统的质量，维持该系统以应对大流行威胁，并利用监测系统产生的数据为决策、政策和做法提供信息，以减轻该区域流感相关疾病的负担。(C) 2019作者。由爱思唯尔有限公司代表沙特国王本阿卜杜勒阿齐兹健康科学大学出版。这是一篇基于CC BY-NC-ND许可（http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/）的开放获取文章。
Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Owing to its ability to rapidly evolve and spread, the influenza virus is of global public health importance. Information on the burden, seasonality and risk factors of influenza in countries of the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region is emerging because of collaborative efforts between countries, WHO and its partners over the past 10 years. The fourth meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Acute Respiratory Infection Surveillance network was held in Amman, Jordan on 11-14 December 2017. The meeting reviewed the progress and achievements reported by the countries in the areas of surveillance of and response to seasonal, zoonotic and pandemic influenza. The first scientific conference on acute respiratory infection in the Eastern Mediterranean Region was held at the same time and 38 abstracts from young researchers across the Region were presented on epidemiological and virological surveillance, outbreak detection and response, influenza at the animal-human interface, use and efficacy of new vaccines to control respiratory diseases and pandemic influenza threats. The meeting identified a number of challenges and ways to improve the quality of the surveillance system for influenza, sustain the system so as to address pandemic threats and use the data generated from the surveillance system to inform decision-making, policies and practices to reduce the burden of influenza-associated illnesses in the Region. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).