Open AccessThe unique contribution of a local response group in the field investigation and management of a trichinellosis outbreak in Nunavik (Québec, Canada)
Author(s) -
Julie Ducrocq,
Jean-François Proulx,
Ma Simard,
Benoît Lévesque,
Martha Iqaluk,
Lisa Elijassiapik,
Etok Ningiuk,
Pamela Perkins,
Solange Jacques,
Mélanie Lemire
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1920-7476
pISSN - 0008-4263
DOI - 10.17269/s41997-019-00255-8
Subject(s) - outbreak , public health , consumption (sociology) , environmental health , geography , local community , empowerment , wildlife , medicine , political science , ecology , sociology , biology , nursing , virology , social science , law
Consumption of raw game meats is important for Inuit health and well-being but may sometimes increase risk of exposure to parasites. In Nunavik, following trichinellosis outbreaks in the 1980s caused by raw walrus consumption, a diagnostic test was developed for the region and offered to all Inuit communities by 1997. Despite this prevention program, an important trichinellosis outbreak occurred in 2013, affecting 18 inhabitants of Inukjuak.