The pattern of notifiable infectious diseases in Iraq Paperback / softback
by Aamir Al-Mosawi
Paperback / softback
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The year 2020 witnessed the emergence of covid-19 disease as a new notifiable infectious disease in Iraq and throughout the world.
Little is known about the pattern of notifiable infectious diseases in Iraq during the first year of covid-19 pandemic.
The aim of this paper is provide a description of the pattern of notifiable infectious diseases in Iraq during the year 2020, the first year of covid-19 global pandemic.Notifiable infectious diseases in Iraq were associated with a significant mortality during the year 2020, and that was because of the emergence of covid-19 disease as a new notifiable infectious diseases.
Covid-19 disease, the most common notifiable infectious disease in 2020 changed the previously reported national mortality pattern.Contradictory, to the general belief that mortality associated with covid-19 disease was generally restricted to the older age groups, 117 children under the age of ten years died because of covid-19 disease in 2020.
This number of childhood deaths suggests the need to consider vaccination of the younger age groups and to perform the relevant research.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:56 pages
- Publisher:Scholars' Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9786138958208
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:56 pages
- Publisher:Scholars' Press
- Publication Date:16/08/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9786138958208