Comprehensive DENGUE Surveillance System

[PREUT ASSAWAWORRARIT]

Dengue infection, caused by dengue virus, is a mosquito-borne disease. In Thailand, the annual incidence reported from department of disease control, ministry of public health, is approximately 94,000 cases which is high in rainy season. The mortality is approximately 4-10 patients a year. It has wide range of clinical spectrum from asymptomatic to multiple organ failure leading to mortality. Thai government wishes to reduce the death of dengue disease to zero. At present, there is no specific treatment for dengue infection, therefore, it is self-limiting disease. However, severe dengue infection leading to multiple organ failure and death in spite of modern and intensive treatment. Early detection of dengue infection in a community and prompt eradication of dengue-carrying mosquitoes are the crucial step to reduce the incidence and its mortality.

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Any comments will be my pleasure, thank you.

 

[Zarni Lynn Kyaw]

I learned that the Thai and Myanmar dengue disease burden is similar, but Myanmar has many more case fatalities.
– Developing both active and passive surveillance systems can be costly
– Similar laws protect Myanmar disease reporting, but in the end, proper advocacy to the public is needed for cooperation.
– It is good to identify Thai citizens and foreigners as stakeholders as I assume some cases can be imported to Thai from Myanmar.
– Would it be possible to involve a wider health community and thought leaders for better research uptake?

Overall, fantastic presentation.

[Kawin Wongthamarin]

It’s an excellent presentation.
I like the idea of using AI to help predict before the outbreak. So it would be able to prevent outbreaks quickly.
I think adding the user satisfaction evaluation would also be awesome.
in order to bring user recommendations to improve the system to be able to last longer.

Thank you

[ABDILLAH FARKHAN]

Thank you for the valuable presentation. Undeniably, Dengue Fever is one important disease faced by tropical countries like ASEAN with the vast majority in urban areas. I agree that sentinel surveillance is appropriate.

Regarding the structure of surveillance, I have another opinion that Dengue is also applicable to an indicator-based system in addition to event-based ones. All data gathered from healthcare providers will be credible to define the outbreak based on seasonality trends, burden, and risk factors.

Best.

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