Strategies to Prevent Cholera Introduction during International Personnel Deployments: A Computational Modeling Analysis Based on the 2010 Haiti Outbreak.

Strategies to Prevent Cholera Introduction during International Personnel Deployments: A Computational Modeling Analysis Based on the 2010 Haiti Outbreak.

BACKGROUND:Introduction of Vibrio cholerae to Haiti during the deployment of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in 2010 resulted in one of the largest cholera epidemics of the modern era. Following the outbreak, a UN-commissioned independent panel recommended three pre-deployment intervention strategi...

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Main Authors: Joseph A Lewnard, Marina Antillón, Gregg Gonsalves, Alice M Miller, Albert I Ko, Virginia E Pitzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4727895?pdf=render

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