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Decreased peripheral health service utilisation during an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, Uíge, Angola, 2005

2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 103; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.09.001

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Paul Roddy, Andrea Marchiol, Benjamin Jeffs, Pedro Pablo Palma, Óscar Bernal, Olimpia de la Rosa, Matthias Borchert,

Disaster Response and Management

In 2005, a Marburg haemorrhagic fever (MHF) outbreak occurred in Uíge province, Angola, which had its epicentre in Uíge municipality. Concurrently, a health facility located a considerable distance from the outbreak's epicentre reported a drastic reduction in attendance, possibly due to a remote effect of the ongoing MHF outbreak. Health officials should devise strategies to ensure that communities far from a filovirus haemorrhagic fever epicentre are not adversely affected by interventions at the epicentre and, to the greatest extent possible, ensure that these peripheral communities receive essential medical care during an epidemic.