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. 2018 Jan;24(1):168-170.
doi: 10.3201/eid2401.170916.

Costs of Conjunctivitis Outbreak, Réunion Island, France

Laurent Filleul, Frederic Pagès, Guy-Noel Chan Wan, Elise Brottet, Pascal Vilain

Costs of Conjunctivitis Outbreak, Réunion Island, France

Laurent Filleul et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

During January-April 2015, a major outbreak of conjunctivitis on Réunion Island caused a large public health impact. On the basis of general practitioner consultations, emergency department visits, and eye medication sales during the 13-week epidemic, we estimated a total healthcare cost of €3,341,191 from the outbreak.

Keywords: Cire OI; France; French national health insurance; International Classification of Diseases; Madagascar; Mauritius; NHI; Oscour network; Réunion Island; SNIIR-AM; South-West Indian Ocean; Syndromic surveillance; conjunctivitis; outbreak.

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