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2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
2013-10-11 • Epidemiology and Infection
SUMMARY Two community-based density case-control studies were performed to assess risk factors for cholera transmission during inter-peak periods of the ongoing epidemic in two Haitian u...
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2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
2014-01-15 • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
INTRODUCTION
During January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, resulting in death and destruction for hundreds of thousands of people. This study describes the types of o...
During January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, resulting in death and destruction for hundreds of thousands of people. This study describes the types of o...
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2008-04-14 • Lancet
2008-04-14 • Lancet
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s, more than 600,000 people had epidemic meningococcal meningitis, of whom 10% died. The current recommended treatment by WHO is short-course...
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2008-03-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2008-03-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Inadequate evaluation of vaccine coverage after mass vaccination campaigns, such as used in national measles control programmes, can lead to inappropriate public health responses. Overes...
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2010-11-08 • Conflict and Health
2010-11-08 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND
The province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been afflicted by conflict for over a decade. After months of relative calm, offences restarted in Septe...
The province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been afflicted by conflict for over a decade. After months of relative calm, offences restarted in Septe...
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2014-09-29 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2014-09-29 • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE
To describe and analyse the characteristics of oral cholera vaccination campaigns; including location, target population, logistics, vaccine coverage and delivery costs.
To describe and analyse the characteristics of oral cholera vaccination campaigns; including location, target population, logistics, vaccine coverage and delivery costs.
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2012-05-30 • PLOS One
2012-05-30 • PLOS One
Early detection and confirmation of cholera outbreaks are crucial for rapid implementation of control measures. Because cholera frequently affects regions with limited laboratory resourc...
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2007-01-01 • PLOS Medicine
2007-01-01 • PLOS Medicine
BACKGROUND: Despite the comprehensive World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) measles mortality-reduction strategy and the Measles Initiative, a partnersh...
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2016-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2016-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
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 retrospec...
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Use of filter paper as a transport medium for laboratory diagnosis of cholera under field conditions
2011-06-22 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2011-06-22 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Confirmation of a cholera epidemic is based on bacteriological identification of the agent and requires the sending of samples to a culture laboratory, often in countries with limited re...
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2015-03-26 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2015-03-26 • PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
In 2010 and 2011, Haiti was heavily affected by a large cholera outbreak that spread throughout the country. Although national health structure-based cholera surveillance was rapidly ini...