title: [Epidemiological situation of Chad].
abstract: Chad, the land located in Central Africa nowadays is one of the poorest countries in the world, what is connected with catastrophic demographic indicators and numerous cases of infectious diseases among local population as well as external and internal refugees. Epidemiologic profile is dominated by vector-, water-, food-borne, respiratory, and sexually transmitted diseases. Environmental factors, such as an effect of high temperature, sand and dust storms also pose essential threat. This is related to location of majority of Chad territory in the area of Sahara and Sahel. The article presents information concerning current epidemiological hazards encountered by visitors in this country. This knowledge is essential for Polish health service and armed forces in the context of forming of EUFOR mission in Chad with participation of our soldiers.
authors.affiliation: Wojskowy Instytut Medyczny w Gdyni, Zakład Medycyny Morskiej i Tropikalnej. kktropmed@wp.pl
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Korzeniewski
mesh_terms: D002596:Chad / Q000453:epidemiology; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D014195:Travel