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Emerging Re-emerging
Diseases
INTRODUCTION
• Disease burden is colossal
• Cause heavy mortality, disability and economic loss
• Result in widespread epidemics
• Immense suffering to the man kind
• Disturb International trade and economic development
DEFINITION
Emerging infectious diseases are “New diseases; new problem (New threats)”.
An emerging infectious disease is a one that is caused by a newly discovered infectious agent or by a newly identified variant of a known pathogen, which has emerged and whose incidence in humans has increased during the last two decades and is threatening to increase in the near future.
Cont….
• Re-emerging infectious diseases are “old diseases, new problem. (New threats)”.
• A re-emerging infectious disease is a one which was previously controlled but once again has risen to be a significant health problem. This term also refers to that disease which was formerly confined to one geographic area, has now spread to other areas.
Transmission of communicable diseases
Agent
of
Vector
Agents Human
Indir
ect
Direct contact
Contact
• Number of agents
• Characteristics of agents • Pathogenicity
• Defense mechanisms
• Immunity
• Personal characteristics
Host Reaction Infectious agents
Enter human host
Produces inapparent infection Host recovery
Mild disease Host fights or
with treatment
Severe disease with treatment
Disability
Death
The Factors Responsible
Improper planning of the township
Population explosion
Poor living conditions
Over crowding
Industrialization
Urbanization
Lack of health care services
Migration of population
Intense international travel
Globalization
Cont…• Indiscriminate use of antibiotics and
development of resistance
• Increase in contact with animals
• Insecticide resistance
• Alterations in micro-organisms
• Environmental degradation with changing weather pattern.
• Illiteracy and ignorance
• Natural disasters
Predisposing Factors for the Epidemic
• Before the on set of epidemic
– Earth quake (Gujarath-1993)
• During the epidemic
– Migration of the people
– Eruption of slums
– Collection of garbage
– Scarcity of antibiotics
Emerging Diseases in India and Global
• Diseases due to new agents (Eg.AIDS)
• Diseases due to new variants of known pathogens (Eg.Avian Flu)
• Diseases caused by an infectious agent but resulting in non-communicable diseases. (Eg.Hep.C results in liver cancer)
Global examples of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
Examples of new and Reemerging Diseases
Emerging Food borne water borne disease
• Accounts for 20 million cases in the world annually (T.D. Chugh-2008)
• Incidence is increasing
• Half of all known food borne pathogens discovered during the past 25 years
Cont…..Entero hemorrhagic Escherichia coli
– Causes no signs of illness
– Low infections dose in humans causes hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uraemic syndrome
– Consumption of undercooked beef and contaminated vegetables, fruits and water for vegetarians.
– Reported in 1.4% of stools from cases of bloody diarrhoea in Kolkata (Ministry of Health and Welfare 2006).
– Detection of potential pathogenic O157:H7 in river water (Ganges by Hamner et al 2007) is alarming.
Cont….Vibrio cholerae
• Cholera is one of the oldest recorded infectious diseases.
• John Snow demonstrated the spread by infected water
• Pacini in 1854, first described comma shaped bacteria
• Robert Koch in 1883, showed the causative agent V .Cholerae.
• Das and Gupta -2005 reported the diversity of V .Cholerae.
• Narang et al (2008) described the changing patterns of V .Cholerae.
Listeria monocytogenes
Listerosis is an emerging zoonotic disease
28% deaths due to food borne illnesses in USA
Organism is robust and survive food-processing and contaminated refrigerated meat and dairy products.
In India, Bhujwala et al in 1970 reported the presence of this organism in cervical secretions of 1.3-3% of cases with very bad obstetrical history.
Thomas et al (1981) in a prospective study of 1300 newborns found the pathogen in 2 cases
Campylobacter spp
Are significant zoonotic poultry pathogens
Leading cause of gastro enteritis in the world
Around 2.5 million human infections are reported annually in the United States.
In developing countries the presence of the organism was reported in 5-20% in child hood diarrhoea
Jain et al (2005) reported isolation of jejuni in 13.5% of the diarrhoea patients
Drug-resistant bacteria
• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in hospitals and community poses a public health problem (Moellering 2007).
• Reservoir for resistant genes is the fecal flora and upper respiratory tract
• Chugh (2008) reviewed the global status of AMR in
various pathogens.
• Woodford (2007) has identified the existence of multi resistant clones of common pathogens.
Cont…. Staphylococcus aureus is the “modern Ghengis
Khan” (Chugh 2007). the most frequently identified drug-resistant pathogen.
Singhal et al (2007)reported ciprofloxacin-resistant meningococci in an outbreak in Delhi.
Resistance of Salmonella typhi and S. paratyphi to chloramphenicol, ampicillin and cotrimoxazole is widespread.
AMR in Shigella resistance to azithromycin, ceftriaxon and ciprofloxacin on the increase
Rational use of antibacterial to contain AMR
Melioidosis • The causative pathogen is Burkholderia
pseudomallei
• It is an environmental saprophyte in rice paddies, wet soil, mud and pooled surface water.
• It causes suppurative chronic infection characterized by septicemia and focal abscesses in liver, spleen and other viscera.
Cont….
• Has been documented from Tamilnadu and Karnataka.
• The association of the disease with diabetes mellitus is high.
• Vidyalakshmi et al (2007) reviewed the disease in India
• The first culture proven case in India was a child in Maharashtra in 1990.
Chronic and Neoplastic Diseases
Microbe Disease Helicobacter pylori Peptic ulcer, gastric
carcinoma
Human papilloma virus Cervical, anal, vulvar carcinoma
Hepatitis B/C viruses Liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma
Epstein –Bar Virus B-cell lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Human T lymphotropic virus type 1
Adult T-cell leukemia
Cont….Microbe Disease
Human herpes virus 8 Kaposi’s sarcoma
Borrelia burgdorferi Lyme arthritis
Tropheryma whippelii Whipple’s disease
Chlamydia pneumoniae
atherosclerosis
Cont…. • Ramakrishna (2006) discussed the high prevalence of
H. pylori infection in India.
• The high prevalence of resistance to metronidazole, clarithromycin and amoxicillin is the failure to eradicate H. pylori infection.
• The resistance is higher in south than north India.
• High rate of re infections in Indian subjects (60%).
• Chlamydia pneumoniae is associated with pathogenesis
of coronary artery disease. (Jha et al 2007).
Control of Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
• Controlling the reservoir
• Interrupting the transmission
• Protecting the susceptible host
• Strengthening of the disease surveillance system
• Encouraging research initiations for treatmentregimens and diagnostics
• Encouraging research for new methods of control measures
• Establishment of drug resistance
Response to H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in Hong Kong.
Emerging Infectious Diseases: a Research Approach
Benefits of Emerging Diseases Research
Emerging Diseases Funding (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases).
Role of Nurses in Prevention
Increase knowledge and skill
Encourage partnerships with consumers and other disciplines to identify needs, set priorities, develop strategies and evaluate progress
Support health care legislation
Involve in research
Encourage using multidisciplinary efforts.
Influence local and National economic and political options
Continue to advance nursing concern
Educate the public
Benefits of Community Prevention Programme
Opportunity to reach the masses and effect widespread changes in social norms
Increased public awareness of and commitment
Increased cost efficiency of group intervention
Ability of the programme to promote the development of an environment of social support
Opportunity of evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion programms
Enhanced approach toward promoting health in large population
Additional resources for information exchange and social support.
Role of Public Health Authorities
• National programme for prevention and control of vector borne diseases
• Legislations for elimination
• Communities awareness of the disease
• Minimizing transmission of infection: By – Risk communication to the family members
– Minimizing vector population
– Minimizing vector – individual contact
• Reporting to the nearest public health authority
Public health measures to prevent infectious diseases
• Safe water
• Sewage treatment and disposal
• Food safety programme
• Animal control programme
• Vaccination programme
• Public health organization
Response of the WHO
• Developing global and regional strategies
• Appointing Task Force
• Generous grant from WHO regular budget
• Support the World Bank grant
Conclusion • The true prevalence of many diseases is not
known. Since we live in a global village, we connot afford to be complacent about the tremendous economic, social and public health burden of these diseases. Effective surveillance is the key to their early containment.
• There is a need to develop epidemiology improved diagnostic facilities, a strong public health structure, effective risk communication, epidemic preparedness and rapid response.
Take Home Massage
• Community health is the pivot of Global health. Let us join our hands on creating an awareness to the individual family and community through effective risk communication.