Cholera epidemic in Yemen

Cholera count reaches 500 000 in Yemen

02 Cholera epidemic in Baghdad.pmd

1Department of Medicine; 2Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq (Correspondence to A.M. Al-Abbassi: [email protected]). Received: 26/06/02; accepted: 15/09/04 ABSTRACT An epidemic of cholera in Iraq was anticipated for the year 1999 and a plan of notification and treatment of cases of diarrhoea was made. This paper documents the clinical a...

Inside Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic.

Epidemic Progression of Cholera

natural laws and progressive steps of the disease. It is often said that statistics can be made to prove anything ; but, from personal knowledge of the records of cholera in India, I assert that statistics of the army in that country are a marvel of accuracy, and from them have been deduced most valuable data. The late Dr. James Bryden's works on epidemic disease in India teem with information ...

Environmental Factors Influencing Epidemic Cholera

Dear Sir: We have concerns with the recent publication by Jutla and colleagues, which aims to describe the environmental factors influencing epidemic cholera. 1 Regarding cholera in Haiti, the authors challenged the findings of many studies showing that the epidemic likely originated from the importation of toxi-genic Vibrio cholerae by Nepalese peacekeepers in October 2010. 2–5 Instead, they a...