Serial Number

Outbreak notification

Place of occurence

Suspected Outbreak

Steps Taken by IEDCR

Conclusion

1.

Nipah surveillance, January 2012

Joypurhat

AMES

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation 3.Animal investigation 4.Environmental investigation done

Nipah

2.

ILI surveillance in Live bird market, March 2012

Live bird market in Dhaka

ILI

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation 3.Animal investigation 4.Environmental investigation done

H5N1

3.

Newspapers (Destiny), April 2012

Joymontop Government Primary and High School, Shingair

MPI

1. Epidemiological investigation

Mass Psychogenic Illness

4.

Deputy Civil Surgeon of Kurigram

Nursing Institute, Kurigram

ILI

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Laboratory investigation

Pandemic H1N1

5.

Mass media reports

Different areas of Dhaka City

Diarrhoea

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation 3.Environmental investigation ongoing

Ongoing

6.

Mass media reports reported on 29 May 2012

Lokkhipur

Suspected ant-helminthic poisoning

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Laboratory investigation

Mass psychogenic illness

7.

Local health authority of Bogra Sadar reported on 18 June 2012

Bogra Sadar

Cutaneous anthrax

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Animal investigation 3.Environmental investigation ongoing

Cutaneous anthrax

8.

Dinajpur Medical College Hospital authority, 16 June 2012

Upazilas of Dinajpur

Unknown illness

1.Epidemiological investigation

Suspected pesticide poisoning

9.

BSMMU physicians reported the event on 2 August 2012

Rangpur

Isolated case of unconsciousness from unknown cause

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Laboratory investigation

Japanese encephalitis

10.

TV and print media and Civil Surgeon of Meherpur

Meherpur

Suspected cutaneous anthrax

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation 3.Animal investigation 4.Environmental investigation done

Cutaneous anthrax

11.

Mass media reports on 30 August, 2012

Khuliarchar, Bhangnamari, Gauripur, Mymensingh

Unknown skin lesion in sole of the feet

1. Epidemiological investigation

Skin pigmentation

12.

Nipah surveillance on 20 September 2012

Rangpur

Cluster of unknown fever cases

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Laboratory investigation

Respiratory viral infections

13.

Physicians from Ganashastha Shoomaj Vittik Medical College Hospital on 1 October 2012

Savar, Dhaka

Unknown death of 3 children

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Laboratory investigation

Isolated death cases

14.

Physicians of Sis Salimullah Medical college hospital

Kaliakoir, Gazipur, Dhaka

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation 3.Animal investigation 4.Environmental investigation done

Dengue

15.

Disease Control, DGHS

Raipur, Laksmipur

Post Mebendazole ingestion illness in school children

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation

MPI

16.

Reported by Influenza surveillance

Mohammadpur

Unknown cluster of respiratory illness

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation 3.Animal investigation 4.Environmental investigation done

Rumour verification

17.

Local health authority, Tangail

Tangail

Unknown illness

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation 3.Animal investigation 4.Environmental investigation done

Chikungunya

18.

Media reports and Paediatrics Department of Chittagong Medical College Hospital

Chittagong

Cluster of acute meningitis encephalitis syndrome

1.Epidemiological investigation 2.Anthropological investigation 3.Environmental investigation done

Suspected pesticide poisoning