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Mortality rates during cholera epidemic, Haiti, 2010-2011

Luquero FJ, Rondy M, Boncy J, Munger A, Mekaoui H, Rymshaw E, Page AL, Touré B, Degail MA, Nicolas S, Grandesso F, Ginsbourger M, Polonsky JA, Alberti KP, Terzian M, Porten K, Ciglenecki I
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Abstract
The 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti was one of the largest cholera epidemics ever recorded. To estimate the magnitude of the death toll during the first wave of the epidemic, we retrospectively conducted surveys at 4 sites in the northern part of Haiti. Overall, 70,903 participants were included; at all sites, the crude mortality rates (19.1-35.4 deaths/1,000 person-years) were higher than the expected baseline mortality rate for Haiti (9 deaths/1,000 person-years). This finding represents an excess of 3,406 deaths (2.9-fold increase) for the 4.4% of the Haiti population covered by these surveys, suggesting a substantially higher cholera mortality rate than previously reported.

Countries

Haiti

Subject Area

outbreakscholeramortality

Languages

English
DOI
10.3201/eid2203.141970
Published Date
01 Mar 2016
PubMed ID
26886511
Journal
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume | Issue | Pages
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 410-416
Issue Date
2016-03-01
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