Costs of Conjunctivitis Outbreak, Réunion Island, France

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

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.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Conjunctivitis, Acute Hemorrhagic / economics*
  • Conjunctivitis, Acute Hemorrhagic / epidemiology*
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • France / epidemiology
  • Health Care Costs
  • Humans
  • Reunion / epidemiology