Use of Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System for Human Monkeypox Outbreak, Nigeria, 2017-2019

Bernard C Silenou; Daniel Tom-Aba; Olawunmi Adeoye; Chinedu C Arinze; Ferdinand Oyiri; Anthony K Suleman; Adesola Yinka-Ogunleye; Juliane Dörrbecker; Chikwe Ihekweazu; Gérard Krause

doi:10.3201/eid2602.191139

Use of Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System for Human Monkeypox Outbreak, Nigeria, 2017-2019

Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Feb;26(2):345-349. doi: 10.3201/eid2602.191139.

Authors

Bernard C Silenou, Daniel Tom-Aba, Olawunmi Adeoye, Chinedu C Arinze, Ferdinand Oyiri, Anthony K Suleman, Adesola Yinka-Ogunleye, Juliane Dörrbecker, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Gérard Krause

Abstract

In November 2017, the mobile digital Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System was deployed in 30 districts in Nigeria in response to an outbreak of monkeypox. Adaptation and activation of the system took 14 days, and its use improved timeliness, completeness, and overall capacity of the response.

Keywords: Africa; Nigeria; SORMAS; Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System; contact tracing; digital health; mHealth; mobile health; monkeypox virus; outbreak detection; surveillance; viruses.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Disease Outbreaks*
Humans
Monkeypox virus*
Mpox (monkeypox) / epidemiology*
Mpox (monkeypox) / etiology
Nigeria / epidemiology
Population Surveillance*