Volume 30, Number 9—September 2024
Research
Use of Open-Source Epidemic Intelligence for Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Ukraine, 2022
Anjali Kannan, Rosalie Chen, Zubair Akhtar, Braidy Sutton, Ashley Quigley
, Margaret J. Morris, and C. Raina MacIntyre
, Margaret J. Morris, and C. Raina MacIntyre
Table 1
Numbers of daily reports of disease outbreaks before and during Russia’s invasion, by disease, Ukraine, November 1, 2021–July 31, 2022*
| Disease |
No. reports |
|
| Before conflict |
During conflict |
|
| COVID-19 | 106 | 187 |
| Cholera | 0 | 157 |
| Botulism | 22 | 122 |
| Tuberculosis | 11 | 75 |
| HIV/AIDS | 6 | 61 |
| Rabies | 12 | 40 |
| Salmonellosis | 4 | 39 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 29 |
| Poliomyelitis | 37 | 19 |
| Varicella | 1 | 15 |
| Rotavirus infection | 9 | 15 |
| Malaria | 8 | 13 |
| Influenza | 39 | 10 |
| Measles | 1 | 9 |
| Leptospirosis | 1 | 8 |
| SARS-CoV-1 infection | 3 | 8 |
| Other† | 2 | 7 |
| Hepatitis A | 0 | 6 |
| Escherichia coli infection | 2 | 5 |
| Hepatitis, unspecified | 0 | 4 |
| Hepatitis C | 1 | 4 |
| Lyme disease | 0 | 3 |
| Encephalitis | 0 | 3 |
| Tularemia | 1 | 3 |
| Staphylococcus infection | 2 | 3 |
| Anthrax, unspecified | 0 | 2 |
| Mpox | 0 | 2 |
| Shigellosis | 0 | 2 |
| Smallpox | 0 | 2 |
| Meningococcal | 2 | 2 |
| CCHF | 0 | 1 |
| Newcastle disease | 0 | 1 |
| Q fever | 0 | 1 |
| Tetanus | 0 | 1 |
| Yersiniosis | 0 | 1 |
| Typhoid fever | 1 | 1 |
| Dirofilariasis | 2 | 1 |
| Avian influenza, unspecified | 4 | 1 |
| Brucellosis | 1 | 0 |
| Influenza A(H1N1) | 3 | 0 |
| Influenza A(H3N2) | 11 | 0 |
| Influenza A(H5N1) | 1 | 0 |
| Influenza B | 1 | 0 |
| Listeriosis | 5 | 0 |
| Pneumonia of unknown origin | 1 | 0 |
| Rubella | 1 | 0 |
| Trichinellosis | 1 | 0 |
*Data are reports of outbreaks, not case numbers. CCHF, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. †Reports containing information about diseases that were deemed by EPIWATCH analysts to not fit in any of the existing disease/syndrome categories on EPIWATCH.
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