Rguig, Ahmed
Cherkaoui, Imad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4798-8672
McCarron, Margaret
Oumzil, Hicham
Triki, Soumia
Elmbarki, Houria
Bimouhen, Abderrahman
El Falaki, Fatima
Regragui, Zakia
Ihazmad, Hassan
Nejjari, Chakib
Youbi, Mohammed
Article History
Received: 7 April 2020
Accepted: 18 June 2020
First Online: 29 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The ILI sentinel surveillance system is a public health activity organized by the Ministry of Health of Morocco. Personally identifiable data is excluded from this surveillance system; as a result, no request for authorization from the National Ethics Committees was required. Indeed, the Royal Dahir N°1–15-110 dated August 4, 2015, promulgating the law N°28–13 relating to the protection of persons participating in biomedical research, provides for special provisions for non-interventional or observational researches as stipulated in its articles 2 and 26.
: Not applicable.The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.