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Africa's Nomadic Pastoralists and Their Animals Are an Invisible Frontier in Pandemic Surveillance.

  • Hassell JM Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Disease, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Zimmerman D Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Disease, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Fèvre EM International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Zinsstag J University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Bukachi S Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Barry M Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
  • Muturi M Kenya Zoonotic Disease Unit, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Bett B International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Jensen N International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Ali S Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia.
  • Maples S Stanford Geospatial Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
  • Rushton J Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Tschopp R Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • Madaine YO Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia.
  • Abtidon RA Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia.
  • Wild H Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
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  • 2020-09-12
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  • The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. - 2020
Africa
Animals
Betacoronavirus
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Coronavirus Infections
Delivery of Health Care
Ecosystem
Health Policy
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral
Population Surveillance
Transients and Migrants
English The effects of COVID-19 have gone undocumented in nomadic pastoralist communities across Africa, which are largely invisible to health surveillance systems despite the fact that they are of key significance in the setting of emerging infectious disease. We expose these landscapes as a "blind spot" in global health surveillance, elaborate on the ways in which current health surveillance infrastructure is ill-equipped to capture pastoralist populations and the animals with which they coexist, and highlight the consequential risks of inadequate surveillance among pastoralists and their livestock to global health. As a platform for further dialogue, we present concrete solutions to address this gap.
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