TITLE:
Management Problems of Trans-Frontier Yellow Fever Cases in Burkina Faso 2010
AUTHORS:
Seydou Yaro, Aline R. Ouoba, Alidou Zango, Jérémi Rouamba, Aly Drabo, Soumeya Ouangraoua, Fati Samandoulougou-Kirakoya, Jean Macq, Annie Robert, Jean Bosco Ouedraogo
KEYWORDS:
Yellow Fever; Surveillance; Reference Laboratory; Trans-Frontier; Burkina Faso
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Infectious Diseases,
Vol.3 No.2,
June
5,
2013
ABSTRACT: This last
decade, Burkina Faso has been confronted with yellow fever confirmed cases,
mainly from Western part of the country. In 2010, National Reference laboratory
of yellow fever received 970 sera of suspected cases from the 65 Health
Districts of the country. We found 11 positive results by ELISA test
researching specific IgM against yellow fever. An aliquot of these eleven
positive sera were sent to Dakar for confirmation by sero neutralization and RT-PCR.
Eight have been confirmed by regional laboratory of Pasteur Institute of Dakar
and three were classified as doubtful. Confirmed cases were manly notified by
Sindou (4/8) and Mangodara (3/8) Health Districts and the last one came from
Nongr-masson health District situated in the central part of the country. Three out of the four confirmed cases
in Sindou Health District were resident from neighboring village in Ivory Cost.
Conformed cases coming from neighboring villages of Ivory Cost were difficult
to manage because of the relative lack of coordination between the two health
centers responsible in two different countries. The three cases were not
notified to Ivory Cost Health authorities and, in addition, they didn’t benefit
from the Burkina Faso
response plan. The goal of this work is to present results from National Reference
yellow fever laboratory in 2010 in
Burkina Faso and stressing trans-frontier cases management problems in order to
suggest a multinational mechanism of response to fight against this disease
more effectively.