Spatio-temporal analysis of peste des petits ruminants in Uganda
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Spatio-temporal analysis of peste des petits ruminants in Uganda
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Nkamwesiga, Joseph
Korennoy, F. Lumu, P. Nsamba, P. Mwiine, F.N. Roesel, Kristina Wieland, Barbara Perez, A. Kiara, Henry K. Muhanguzi, D. |
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animal diseases
epidemiology pest of small ruminants sheep goats small ruminants |
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Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) is a transboundary, highly contagious, and fatal disease of small ruminants. PPR causes global annual economic losses of between USD 1.5-2.0 billion across more than 70 affected countries. Despite the commercial availability of effective PPR vaccines, lack of financial and technical commitment to PPR control coupled with a dearth of refined PPR risk profiling data in different endemic countries has perpetuated PPR virus transmission. In Uganda, over the past five years, PPR has extended from north-eastern Uganda (Karamoja) with sporadic incursions in other districts. To identify disease cluster hotspot trends that would facilitate the design and implementation of PPR risk-based control methods (including vaccination), we employed the space-time cube approach to identify trends in the clustering of outbreaks in neighbouring space-time cells. We also used negative binomial and logistic regression models. We identified high small ruminant density, extended road length, low annual precipitation and high soil water index as the most important drivers of PPR in Uganda. The study identified (with 90 - 99% confidence) five PPR disease hotspot trend categories across subregions of Uganda. Diminishing hotspots were identified in the Karamoja region whereas consecutive, sporadic, new, and emerging hotspots were identified in central and southwestern districts of Uganda. Inter-district and cross-border small ruminant movement facilitated by longer road stretches and animal comingling precipitate PPR outbreaks as well as PPR virus spread from its initial Karamoja focus to the central and south-western Uganda. There is therefore urgent need to prioritize considerable vaccination coverage to obtain the required herd immunity among small ruminants in the new hotspot areas to block transmission to further emerging hotspots. Findings of this study provide a basis for more robust timing and prioritization of control measures including vaccination. |
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2022-08-12
2022-08-30T10:03:50Z 2022-08-30T10:03:50Z |
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Presentation
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Nkamwesiga, J., Korennoy, F., Lumu, P., Nsamba, P., Mwiine, F.N., Roesel, K., Wieland, B., Perez, A., Kiara, H. and Muhanguzi, D. 2022. Spatio-temporal analysis of peste des petits ruminants in Uganda. Oral presentation at the 16th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Halifax, Canada, 12 August 2022. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120977 https://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/ppr-analysis-uganda |
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en
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https://hdl.handle.net/10568/118299
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CC-BY-4.0
Open Access |
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application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
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ILRI
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