4 results on '"Wenwu Yin"'
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2. Active case finding with case management: the key to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic
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Zhongjie Li, Qiulan Chen, Luzhao Feng, Lance Rodewald, Yinyin Xia, Hailiang Yu, Ruochen Zhang, Zhijie An, Wenwu Yin, Wei Chen, Ying Qin, Zhibin Peng, Ting Zhang, Daxin Ni, Jinzhao Cui, Qing Wang, Xiaokun Yang, Muli Zhang, Xiang Ren, Dan Wu, Xiaojin Sun, Yuanqiu Li, Lei Zhou, Xiaopeng Qi, Tie Song, George F Gao, Zijian Feng, Huiming Luo, Zundong Yin, Liping Wang, Chao Ma, and Shu Li
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China ,Economic growth ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Pneumonia, Viral ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Article ,Indigenous ,law.invention ,Betacoronavirus ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,law ,Pandemic ,Quarantine ,Disease Transmission, Infectious ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Pandemics ,SARS-CoV-2 ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,Key (cryptography) ,Case finding ,Business ,Contact Tracing ,Coronavirus Infections ,Case Management ,Contact tracing - Abstract
Summary COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020, the first non-influenza pandemic, affecting more than 200 countries and areas, with more than 5·9 million cases by May 31, 2020. Countries have developed strategies to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic that fit their epidemiological situations, capacities, and values. We describe China's strategies for prevention and control of COVID-19 (containment and suppression) and their application, from the perspective of the COVID-19 experience to date in China. Although China has contained severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and nearly stopped indigenous transmission, a strong suppression effort must continue to prevent re-establishment of community transmission from importation-related cases. We believe that case finding and management, with identification and quarantine of close contacts, are vitally important containment measures and are essential in China's pathway forward. We describe the next steps planned in China that follow the containment effort. We believe that sharing countries' experiences will help the global community manage the COVID-19 pandemic by identifying what works in the struggle against SARS-CoV-2.
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- 2020
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3. Mapping the distribution of tick-borne encephalitis in mainland China
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Kun Liu, Shengjie Lai, Hang Zhou, Yang Yang, Hong-Wu Yao, Xin-Lou Li, Yu Li, Wu-Chun Cao, Ruo-Xi Sun, Di Mu, Wenwu Yin, Li-Qun Fang, Liping Wang, and Hongjie Yu
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Adult ,Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Mainland China ,China ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,030231 tropical medicine ,Distribution (economics) ,Forests ,Ixodes persulcatus ,Microbiology ,Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Altitude ,Risk Factors ,Environmental protection ,Epidemiology ,Prevalence ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Child ,Socioeconomics ,Disease burden ,Aged ,Ixodes ,biology ,business.industry ,Incidence ,Infant, Newborn ,Tick-borne encephalitis ,Infant ,Middle Aged ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,030104 developmental biology ,Infectious Diseases ,Child, Preschool ,Insect Science ,Female ,Parasitology ,business ,Animal Distribution ,Encephalitis, Tick-Borne - Abstract
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) has become an increasing public health threat in recent years, ranging from Europe, through far-eastern Russia to Japan and northern China. However, the neglect of its expansion and scarce analyses of the dynamics have made the overall disease burden and the risk distribution of the disease being unclear in mainland China. In this study, we described epidemiological characteristics of 2117 reported human TBE cases from 2006 to 2013 in mainland China. About 99% of the cases were reported in forest areas of northeastern China, and 93% of reported infections occurred during May-July. Cases were primarily male (67%), mostly in 30-59 years among all age-gender groups. Farmers (31.6%), domestic workers (20.1%) and forest workers (17.9%) accounted for the majority of the patients, and the proportions of patients from farmers and domestic workers were increasing in recent years. The epidemiological features of TBE differed slightly across the affected regions. The distribution and features of the disease in three main endemic areas of mainland China were also summarized. Using the Boosted Regression Trees (BRT) model, we found that the presence of TBE was significantly associated with a composite meteorological index, altitude, the coverage of broad-leaved forest, the coverage of mixed broadleaf-conifer forest, and the distribution of Ixodes persulcatus (I. persulcatus) ticks. The model-predicted probability of presence of human TBE cases in mainland China was mapped at the county level. The spatial distribution of human TBE in China was largely driven by the distributions of forests and I. persulcatus ticks, altitude, and climate. Enhanced surveillance and intervention for human TBE in the high-risk regions, particularly on the forest areas in north-eastern China, is necessary to prevent human infections.
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- 2017
4. Climate variability, satellite-derived physical environmental data and human leptospirosis: A retrospective ecological study in China
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Pandji Wibawa Dhewantara, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães, Abdullah Al Mamun, Fan Ding, Wenbiao Hu, Wenwu Yin, and Wenyi Zhang
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Satellite Imagery ,China ,Climate ,Prevalence ,010501 environmental sciences ,Rate ratio ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Leptospirosis ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Retrospective Studies ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science ,Incidence ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Temperature ,Outbreak ,Ecological study ,Environmental Exposure ,Seasonality ,medicine.disease ,Geography ,Seasons ,Demography - Abstract
Background In the past three decades, the incidence rate of notified leptospirosis cases in China have steeply declined and are now circumscribed to discrete areas in the country. Previous research showed that climate and environmental variation may play an important role in leptospirosis transmission. However, quantitative associations between climate, environmental factors and leptospirosis in the high-risk areas in China, is still poorly understood. Objective To quantify the temporal effects of climate and remotely-sensed physical environmental factors on human leptospirosis in the high-risk counties in China. Methods Time series seasonal decomposition was performed to explore the seasonality pattern of leptospirosis incidence in Mengla County, Yunnan and Yilong County, Sichuan for the period 2006–2016. Time series cross-correlation analysis was carried out to examine lagged effects of rainfall, relative humidity, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), modified normalized difference water index (MNDWI) and land surface temperature (LST) on leptospirosis. The associations of climatic and physical environment factors with leptospirosis in each county were assessed by using a generalized linear regression model with negative binomial link, adjusted by seasonal components. Results Leptospirosis incidence in both counties showed strong and unique annual seasonality. Our results show that in Mengla County leptospirosis notifications exhibits a bi-modal temporal pattern while in Yilong County it follows a typical single epidemic curve. After adjusting for seasonality, the final best-fitting model for Mengla County indicated that leptospirosis notifications were significantly associated with present LST values (incidence rate ratio, IRR = 0.857, 95% confidence interval (CI):0.729-0.929) and rainfall at a lag of 6-months (IRR = 0.989; 95% CI: 0.985-0.993). The incidence of leptospirosis in Yilong was associated with rainfall at 1-month lag (IRR = 1.013, 95% CI: 1.003-1.023), LST (3-months lag) (IRR = 1.193, 95% CI: 1.095-1.301), and MNDWI (5-months lag) (IRR = 7.960, 95% CI: 1.241-47.66). Conclusions Our study identified lagged effects between leptospirosis incidence and climate and remotely-sensed environmental factors in the two most endemic counties in China. Rainfall in combination with satellite derived physical environment factors provided better insight of the local epidemiology as well as good predictors for leptospirosis outbreak in both counties. This would also be an avenue for the development of leptospirosis early warning systems to support leptospirosis control in China.
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- 2019
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