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Ending the epidemic of Vilyui encephalomyelitis

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: The occurrence of secondary cases of VEM in previously unaffected populations indicates that VEM is a transmissible disease with a mode of transmission characteristic of chronic infections.Reduce patient-to-patient contact in the acute and subacute periods of VEM with the surrounding population through prolonged hospitalization of patients in specialized medical institutions and improvement of social and hygienic living conditions in Yakut villages led to a slow decline in the incidence in the 1980s and 1990s and its complete disappearance in the 2000s. No new cases of VEM have been reported since 2012.

Source: Yakut Medical Journal

DOI: 10.25789/ymj.2021.74.13

Authors: L.G. Goldfarb, V.A. Vladimirtsev, F.A. Platonov, D.M. Asher, N.M. Renvik, T.Ya. Nikolaeva

Institutions: Queen's University, Queens University, United States Food and Drug Administration, North-Eastern Federal University

Language: English

Topic: Virology and Viral Diseases

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3175542840

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