Responding to Cholera in Post-Earthquake Haiti

2010/12/09 by David Walton, Louise C. Ivers · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Nursing · #Vibrio bacteria research studies #Child Nutrition and Water Access

paper · doi:10.1056/nejmp1012997

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Abstract

Cholera had not been seen in Haiti in at least 100 years, but 9 months after the January 2009 earthquake, it somewhat unexpectedly emerged in a densely populated zone with little sanitary infrastructure and limited access to potable water.

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