关注流行性脑脊髓膜炎暴发疫情和2030年战胜脑膜炎:全球路线图

Focus on the epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis outbreaks and the global road map of defeating meningitis by 2030

世界卫生组织(World Health Organization,WHO)通报,2022年11月1日至2023年1月27日尼日尔东南部报告脑膜炎病例559例,死亡18例,受累人群主要为儿童;实验室确诊病例中,93.7%(104/111)为流行性脑脊髓膜炎(流脑)。2021年至今,美国佛罗里达州男同性恋和双性恋男性人群持续存在脑膜炎球菌病疫情。现简要回顾2次流脑疫情的发生和发展状况,以及发生原因和应对措施,并结合2021年WHO发布的《到2030年战胜脑膜炎:全球路线图》,介绍当前流脑等脑膜炎防控目标和措施,希望能引起国内临床和公共卫生等工作者的重视,提高认知和警惕性,加强流脑等脑膜炎的监测和防治工作。

World Health Organization(WHO)reported that a total of 559 meningitis cases and 18 deaths were reported in the southeast of Niger from November 1,2022 to January 27,2023.Children were the major of patients.Among the laboratory confirmed cases,93.7%(104/111)were epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis.Since 2021,the epidemic of meningococcal disease has attacked the gay and bisexual men in Florida,USA.This paper briefly reviews the occurrence and development of the two outbreaks of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis,as well as the causes and countermeasures.The current prevention and control measures of meningitis is discussed based on the"Defeating meningitis by 2030:Global Road Map"issued by WHO in 2021.This paper is expected to attract the attention and to improve awareness and vigilance of domestic clinical and public health workers,which would lead to strengthen the surveillance,prevention and control of meningitis.