Mejbah Bhuiyan, Eunice Stiboy, Md Zakiul Hassan, Mei Chan et al.
Introduction Emerging evidence suggests young children are at greater risk of COVID-19 infection than initially predicted. However, a comprehensive understanding of epidemiology of COVID-19 infection in young children under five years, the most at-risk age-group for respiratory infections, remain un...
Najmul Haider, Alexei Yavlinsky, Yu‐Mei Chang, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan et al.
Global Health Security Index (GHSI) and Joint External Evaluation (JEE) are two well-known health security and related capability indices. We hypothesised that countries with higher GHSI or JEE scores would have detected their first COVID-19 case earlier, and would experience lower mortality outcome...
Richard Kock, Anita L. Michel, Dorothy Yeboah‐Manu, Esam I. Azhar et al.
Despite slow reductions in the annual burden of active human tuberculosis (TB) cases, zoonotic TB (zTB) remains a poorly monitored and an important unaddressed global problem. There is a higher incidence in some regions and countries, especially where close association exists between growing numbers...
Apurba Chakraborty, Salah Uddin Khan, Mohammed Abul Hasnat, Shahana Parveen et al.
During August 2009-October 2010, a multidisciplinary team investigated 14 outbreaks of animal and human anthrax in Bangladesh to identify the etiology, pathway of transmission, and social, behavioral, and cultural factors that led to these outbreaks. The team identified 140 animal cases of anthrax a...
Najmul Haider, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Joshua Onyango, Masum Billah et al.
December 2024. We then performed a generalised linear regression model to understand country-level determinants of dengue-related mortality. In 2024, 14.1 million dengue cases were reported globally, surpassing the historic milestone of 7 million observed in 2023. This figure represents a twofold in...
Simon J. Anthony, Ariful Islam, Christine K. Johnson, Isamara Navarrete‐Macias et al.
It is currently unclear whether changes in viral communities will ever be predictable. Here we investigate whether viral communities in wildlife are inherently structured (inferring predictability) by looking at whether communities are assembled through deterministic (often predictable) or stochasti...
Salah Uddin Khan, Emily S. Gurley, Nancy Gerloff, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman et al.
Avian influenza viruses, including highly pathogenic strains, pose severe economic, animal and public health concerns. We implemented live bird market surveillance in Bangladesh to identify the subtypes of avian influenza A viruses in domestic waterfowl and market environments. We collected waterfow...
Sumon Ghosh, Sukanta Chowdhury, Najmul Haider, Rajub Bhowmik et al.
Abstract Community awareness regarding rabies and treatment seeking behaviours are critical both for the prevention and control of the disease in human and animals. We conducted a study to explore people's awareness about rabies, their attitudes towards dogs and practices associated with treating do...
Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Najmul Haider, Florian Stigler, Rumi Ahmed Khan et al.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the trend of reported case fatality rate (rCFR) of COVID-19 over time, using globally reported COVID-19 cases and mortality data. We collected daily COVID-19 diagnoses and mortality data from the WHO's daily situation reports dated January 1 to December 31...
Sumon Ghosh, Md Sohel Rana, Md Kamrul Islam, Sukanta Chowdhury et al.
Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006-2018 to quantify the impacts of MDV on human rabies incidence in Bangladesh and a subset of rabies death data (422...
Najmul Haider, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Joshua Onyango, Md Asaduzzaman
• The world is experiencing the largest dengue outbreak ever. • In 2023, the first global landmark of 6.5 million cases and >6,800 deaths was reached. • South America reported the highest number of dengue cases (3.9 million). • Asia had the highest case fatality ratio (0.22). • Brazil reported the h...
Najmul Haider, M. S. Rahman, Salah Uddin Khan, Andrea Mikolon et al.
The genus pestivirus of the family flaviviridae consists of four recognized species: bovine viral diarrhoea virus 1 (BVDV-1), bovine viral diarrhoea virus 2 (BVDV-2), classical swine fever virus and border disease virus. A new putative pestivirus species tentatively named as either 'HoBi-like pestiv...
Salah Uddin Khan, LaShondra Berman, Najmul Haider, Nancy Gerloff et al.
We investigated unusual crow mortality in Bangladesh during January-February 2011 at two sites. Crows of two species, Corvus splendens and C. macrorhynchos, were found sick and dead during the outbreaks. In selected crow roosts, morbidity was ~1 % and mortality was ~4 % during the investigation. Hig...
Nancy Gerloff, Salah Uddin Khan, Natosha Zanders, Amanda Balish et al.
Influenza virus surveillance, poultry outbreak investigations and genomic sequencing were assessed to understand the ecology and evolution of low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) A viruses in Bangladesh from 2007 to 2013. We analyzed 506 avian specimens collected from poultry in live bird market...
Tanvir Ahammed, Aniqua Anjum, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman, Najmul Haider et al.
Abstract Background and aims Realizing the transmission potential and the magnitude of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) aids public health monitoring, strategies, and preparation. Two fundamental parameters, the basic reproduction number ( R 0 ) and case fatality rate (CFR) of COVID‐19, help ...