BACKGROUND
Since August 2017, approximately 960,000 Rohingya refugees have settled in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastruct...
OBJECTIVES
Cholera is an easily treatable disease, but many people are still unnecessarily dying from it. To improve current case management practices and preve...
Cholera is a bacterial water-borne diarrheal disease transmitted via the fecal-oral route that causes high morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. It is preventable with vaccination...
While standard methods for chlorine taste and odor (T&O) detection and rejection thresholds exist, little rigorous research has been conducted on T&O thresholds in humanitaria...
In refugee and internally displaced person settlements, hygienic water handling and free residual chlorine (FRC) are crucial for protecting water against recontamination after distrib...
Critical failings in humanitarian response: a cholera outbreak in Kumer Refugee Camp, Ethiopia, 2023
Plague is a zoonotic disease caused by Yersinia pestis, and it is endemic in Madagascar. The plague cycle involves wild and commensal rodents and their fleas; humans are an accidental...
The Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) generates evidence-based point-of-distribution free residual chlori...
BACKGROUND
In 2019–2020, preventative Oral Cholera Vaccine campaigns were conducted in 24/32 n...
We evaluated the spatiotemporal clustering of rapid diagnostic test−positive cholera cases in Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We detected spatiotemporal clusters that...
Background
Every year, 60% of deaths from diarrhoeal disease occur in low and middle-income countries due to inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene. In these...
The risk of cholera outbreaks spreading rapidly and extensively is substantial. Case-area targeted interventions (CATI) are based on the premise that early detection can...