Lessons Learned during Public Health Response to Cholera Epidemic in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
After epidemic cholera emerged in Haiti in October 2010, the disease spread rapidly in a country devastated by an earthquake earlier that year, in a population with a high proportion of infant deaths, poor nutrition, and frequent infectious diseases such as HIV infection, tuberculosis, and malaria....
Main Authors: | Jordan W. Tappero, Robert V. Tauxe |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2011-11-01
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Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/11/11-0827_article |
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