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For the Cook Islands, emergencies do not always happen close to the capital. A cyclone, disease outbreak, or emergency can affect communities in the Pa Enua (outer islands), separated by hundreds of kilometres of ocean. When that happens, having the capacity to quickly deploy trained personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide an initial clinical response is essential. That is why the Cook Islands Medical Assistance Team (KukiMAT), the emergency medical team arm of Te Marae Ora (TMO) – Cook Islands Ministry of Health, has been steadily building its readiness to respond. Made up of doctors, nurses, public health professionals and support personnel, the team is preparing to be able to rapidly deploy wherever help is needed, whether in Rarotonga, the Pa Enua, and one day perhaps beyond the country’s shores. In Rarotonga, we met with Dr Deacon Teapa, Medical Specialist and Director of Hospital Health Services at TMO. He explained how important it was to build the capacity of their team to be able to respond to disasters and emergencies. He acknowledged the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners including the New Zealand Medical Assistance Team (NZMAT).

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AbstractBackground & AimsElevated antimicrobial antibodies have been reported up to 6 years before diagnosis of Crohn’s disease (CD), but the specific antibody response is unclear. Here, we characterized the antimicrobial antibody responses before CD diagnosis in healthy first-degree relatives (FDRs) of patients with CD. MethodsThe CCC-GEM (Crohn’s and Colitis Canada – Genetic, Environmental, Microbial) Project nested case-control cohort consisted of FDRs who later developed CD (n = 77), matched 1:4 by age, sex, follow-up duration, and geographical location with healthy FDRs (n = 304). Sera at enrollment were probed for antimicrobial reactivity using a microbiota antigen microarray and a flagellin peptide cytometric bead array. Conditional logistic regression was used to assess association with CD onset, and partial Spearman was used to correlate serologic responses with lactulose-to-mannitol ratio (LMR), C-reactive protein (CRP), and fecal calprotectin (FCP). False discovery rate was controlled using the Benjamini-Hochberg method (q < 0.05).

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