Influenza, Varicella, and Mumps Outbreaks in US Migrant Detention Centers

Nathan C Lo; Sindiso Nyathi; Lloyd A C Chapman; Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer; Margot Kushel; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo; Joseph A Lewnard

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20539

Influenza, Varicella, and Mumps Outbreaks in US Migrant Detention Centers

JAMA. 2021 Jan 12;325(2):180-182. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.20539.

Authors

Nathan C Lo¹, Sindiso Nyathi², Lloyd A C Chapman¹, Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer¹, Margot Kushel³, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo⁴, Joseph A Lewnard⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
² Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
³ Center for Vulnerable Populations, University of California, San Francisco.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
⁵ Division of Epidemiology, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley.

Abstract

This study uses US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Health Service Corps data to describe incident cases and outbreaks of influenza, varicella, and mumps in 22 US ICE detention centers between 2017 and March 2020.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Chickenpox / epidemiology*
Child
Child, Preschool
Disease Outbreaks*
Female
Humans
Infant
Influenza, Human / epidemiology*
Jails
Male
Middle Aged
Mumps / epidemiology*
Transients and Migrants / statistics & numerical data*
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult

Grants and funding

K24 AG046372/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States