Ihekweazu Chikwe, Michael Charles Akataobi, Nguku Patrick M, Waziri Ndadilnasiya Endie, Habib Abdulrazaq Garba, Muturi Mathew, Olufemi Abayomi, Dzikwi-Emennaa Asabe A, Balogun Muhammad Shakir, Visa Tyakaray Ibrahim, Dalhat Mahmood Muazu, Atama Nnomzie Charles, Umeokonkwo Chukwuma David, Mshelbwala Gideon Mbrusa, Vakuru Columba Teru, Kabir Junaidu, Okolocha Emmanuel C, Umoh Jarlath U, Olugasa Babasola, Babalobi Olutayo, Lombin Lami, Cadmus Simeon
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
Africa Field Epidemiology Network, Asokoro, Abuja, Nigeria.
One Health. 2021 Apr 28;13:100257. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100257. eCollection 2021 Dec.
Nigeria, with a population of over 190 million people, is rated among the 10 countries with the highest burden of infectious and zoonotic diseases globally. In Nigeria, there exist a sub-optimal surveillance system to monitor and track priority zoonoses. We therefore conducted a prioritization of zoonotic diseases for the first time in Nigeria to guide prevention and control efforts. Towards this, a two-day in-country consultative meeting involving experts from the human, animal, and environmental health backgrounds prioritized zoonotic diseases using a modified semi-quantitative One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization tool in July 2017. Overall, 36 of 52 previously selected zoonoses were identified for prioritization. Five selection criteria were used to arrive at the relative importance of prioritized diseases based on their weighted score. Overall, this zoonotic disease prioritization process marks the first major step of bringing together experts from the human-animal-environment health spectrum in Nigeria. Importantly, the country ranked rabies, avian influenza, Ebola Virus Disease, swine influenza and anthrax as the first five priority zoonoses in Nigeria. Finally, this One Health approach to prioritizing important zoonoses is a step that will help to guide future tracking and monitoring of diseases of grave public health importance in Nigeria.
尼日利亚拥有超过1.9亿人口，是全球传染病和人畜共患病负担最重的10个国家之一。在尼日利亚，存在一个监测和追踪重点人畜共患病的次优监测系统。因此，我们首次在尼日利亚对人畜共患病进行了优先级排序，以指导预防和控制工作。为此，2017年7月，一场为期两天的国内协商会议召开，来自人类、动物和环境卫生领域的专家使用改良后的半定量“同一健康”人畜共患病优先级排序工具，对人畜共患病进行了优先级排序。总体而言，在之前选定的52种人畜共患病中，有36种被确定为优先疾病。根据加权分数，使用五个选择标准来确定优先疾病的相对重要性。总体而言，这次人畜共患病优先级排序过程标志着尼日利亚首次将人类、动物和环境卫生领域的专家聚集在一起的重要一步。重要的是，该国将狂犬病、禽流感、埃博拉病毒病、猪流感和炭疽列为尼日利亚的前五大优先人畜共患病。最后，这种采用“同一健康”方法对重要人畜共患病进行优先级排序的做法，将有助于指导尼日利亚未来对具有重大公共卫生意义的疾病的追踪和监测。
