Background: Water-related, including waterborne, diseases remain important sources of
morbidity and mortality worldwide, but particularly in developing countries. The potential for …

Investigations of infectious disease outbreaks are conventionally framed in terms of person,
time and place. Although geographic information systems have increased the range of tools …

Survival of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV) in soil samples spiked with
respective viruses was analysed using real-time PCR. Virus-spiked soil samples were …

Background: There was an outbreak of acute hepatitis in Mylapore village, Kollam district,
Kerala, southern India during February to June 2013. An outbreak investigation was initiated …

Background Health is a fundamental right intricately linked to geographical factors, as
evidenced in the health geography literature. The application of geographical information …

Hepatitis A and hepatitis E viruses (HAV and HEV) are the most common etiologies of viral
hepatitis in India. To better understand the epidemiology of these infections, laboratory …

Diarrhoeal diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries.
This longitudinal study aimed to identify controllable environmental drivers of intestinal …

We report an outbreak of acute viral hepatitis among children in a flood rescue camp at
Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand State, India. In May 2013, there was a disastrous natural …

Background There is growing concern of how climate change could affect public health, due
to the increase number of extreme climate events. Hence, the study of the role that climate …

SaTScan can be used for discrete as well as continuous scan statistics. For discrete scan
statistics the geographical locations where data are observed are non-random and fixed by …