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Título

YELLOW FEVER CONTINGENCY PLAN IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF AN ATLANTIC FOREST RESERVE IN CARUARU-PE

Introdução

Sylvatic Yellow Fever (YF) has shown an irregular cycle of reemergence in Brazil. In early 2017, the country experienced a major outbreak, the largest in the recent history of the disease, generating an environmental impact with a record of more than 7 thousand Non-Human Primates (NHP) epizootics, in addition to 261 deaths and 777 confirmed human cases. Additionally, the advent of the pandemics helped to decrease actions towards diseases of singular importance to public health.

Objetivo(s)

Therefore, the importance of the present work relies on the relevance of Yellow Fever and the risk of re-emergence of this disease and aims to establish the territorial mapping of the Atlantic Forest Reserve Professor João Vasconcelos Sobrinho, a Natural Park of the municipality of Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil, as well as improving the epidemiological surveillance actions.

Material e Métodos

Establish a contingency plan with the creation of the Arbovirus Surveillance Committee for Caruaru as well as invest in health education. The plan strengthens Epidemiological Surveillance in a systematic and continuous fashion in outbreaks and epidemics and having the participation of partner institutions and following national guidelines. Additionally, different internal sectors of the municipal health department involved in prevention, essential for dealing with outbreaks and epidemics of arboviruses may be activated by the committee. It also includes meetings for planning and evaluation, using tech resources such as geographical distribution of cases to define areas of greater risk and decision-making for rapid response to the population in the face of threats to public health.

Resultados e Conclusão

The creation of the Committee improved epidemiological surveillance actions, intensified Aedes aegypti control measures, and has been possible to observe changes in surveillance results with an increase in NHP exposure notifications. Moreover, the actions include performing seminars, developing supporting material for health professionals and the community, and training of health and environmental professionals. Therefore, the informed population have been more actively engaged in protective measures. Given the national epidemiological context and characteristics of the territory, a risk scenario of introducing the disease in the region has been observed, requiring systematic work, a contingency plan, on prevention and epidemiological surveillance to avoid re-emergence of the disease.

Palavras-chave

Yellow Fever, arbovirus, epizootics, non-human primates

Área

Eixo 08 | Arboviroses