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Infectious diseases in Pakistan by proportion (2006) Diarrhea (15%): There were around 4,500,000 reported cases in 2006, 14% of which were children under the age of five. Dysentery (8%) and Scabies (7%) Coronavirus: As per statistics published by world o meter, almost 326,431 cases were reported till November, 2020.
Polio in Pakistan. Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries [1] [2] in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection, [3] the other one being Afghanistan. [1] While it has yet to fully eradicate Polio, there has been a downwards trend in the number of reported cases per year; the total count of ...
Emerging Infectious Diseases ( EID) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [1] EID is a public domain [2] journal and covers global instances of new and reemerging infectious diseases, putting greater emphasis on disease emergence, prevention, control, and elimination.
The Infection Control Society of Pakistan (ICSP) is a non-profit national organisation in Pakistan, representing specialist practitioners in infection control. [1] [2] The body consists of a network of health care professionals, Social scientists, financial advisors, opinion leaders and international experts and has conducted research and ...
Children and women are becoming more vulnerable as tens of thousands of people suffer from infectious and water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan and the death toll from the inundation ...
The National Institute of Virology ( NIV) in Pakistan is a national research institute concentrating on biosafety. It has a national laboratory site dedicated to identification and eradication of Emerging infectious diseases, as well as efforts in biological warfare. [1] The aforementioned is a BSL3 laboratory managed by the University of ...
The editor-in-chief is infectious disease physician Paul Sax. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 9.079, ranking it 18th out of 162 journals in the category "Immunology", 3rd out of 92 journals in the category "Infectious Diseases" and 12th out of 137 journals in the category "Microbiology".
The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), established in 1986, is a nonprofit organization that monitors infectious diseases on a global scale. It also offers grants and fellowships, publishes a journal, and runs online learning platforms for sharing information on managing infectious diseases .