1. Emerging and Re-emerging Infections in Children COVID/ MIS-C, Zika, Ebola, Measles, Varicella, Pertussis ... Immunizations
- Author
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Chen, Carol C and Whitehead, Anne
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Clinical Sciences ,Emerging Infectious Diseases ,Clinical Research ,Health Services ,Vaccine Related ,Pediatric ,Prevention ,Infectious Diseases ,Immunization ,Biodefense ,Biotechnology ,Infection ,Good Health and Well Being ,COVID-19 ,Chickenpox ,Chikungunya Fever ,Child ,Communicable Diseases ,Emerging ,Decision Trees ,Dengue ,Emergency Medicine ,Hemorrhagic Fever ,Ebola ,Humans ,Incidence ,Malaria ,Measles ,Pediatrics ,Physician's Role ,Public Health ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome ,Travel-Related Illness ,Vaccination ,Vaccination Refusal ,Whooping Cough ,Zika Virus Infection ,Vaccine-preventable ,Traveler ,Emerging infections ,Re-emerging infections ,Emergency & Critical Care Medicine - Abstract
The role of the emergency provider lies at the forefront of recognition and treatment of novel and re-emerging infectious diseases in children. Familiarity with disease presentations that might be considered rare, such as vaccine-preventable and non-endemic illnesses, is essential in identifying and controlling outbreaks. As we have seen thus far in the novel coronavirus pandemic, susceptibility, severity, transmission, and disease presentation can all have unique patterns in children. Emergency providers also have the potential to play a public health role by using lessons learned from the phenomena of vaccine hesitancy and refusal.
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- 2021