Finding inhabited settlements and tracking vaccination progress: The application of satellite imagery analysis to guide the immunization response to confirmation of previously-undetected, ongoing endemic wild poliovirus transmission in Borno State, Nigeria

Finding inhabited settlements and tracking vaccination progress: The application of satellite imagery analysis to guide the immunization response to confirmation of previously-undetected, ongoing endemic wild poliovirus transmission in Borno State, Nigeria

Background: Four wild polio-virus cases were reported in Borno State, Nigeria 2016, 1 year after Nigeria had been removed from the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organization. Resulting from Nigeria's decade long conflict with Boko Haram, health officials had been unable to...

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Main Authors: Adamu, U. (Author), Adewara, K. (Author), Aladeshawe, A. (Author), Aregay, A. (Author), Barau, I. (Author), Berens, A. (Author), Bolu, O. (Author), Dutton, N. (Author), Higgins, J. (Author), Iduma, N. (Author), Jones, B. (Author), Kaplan, B. (Author), Meleh, S. (Author), Musa, M. (Author), Seaman, V. (Author), Sud, A. (Author), Vouillamoz, S. (Author), Wa Nganda, G. (Author), Wiesen, E. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2019
Subjects:
accessibility
article
awareness
Borno
child
Child, Preschool
controlled study
disease transmission
endemic disease
Endemic Diseases
female
Female
government
health care personnel
human
human experiment
human settlement
Humans
immunization
Immunization
infant
Infant
Infant, Newborn
isolation and purification
major clinical study
male
Male
newborn
Nigeria
nonhuman
poliomyelitis
Poliomyelitis
poliomyelitis vaccine
Poliomyelitis virus
Poliovirus
Poliovirus Vaccines
population distribution
preschool child
procedures
satellite imagery
Satellite Imagery
state role
vaccination
Vaccination
vegetation
virus
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