Notes from the Field: Ongoing Cholera Epidemic — Tanzania, 2015–2016

Cholera Mortality during Urban Epidemic, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, August 16, 2015–January 16, 20161

In 2015, a cholera epidemic occurred in Tanzania; most cases and deaths occurred in Dar es Salaam early in the outbreak. We evaluated cholera mortality through passive surveillance, burial permits, and interviews conducted with decedents' caretakers. Active case finding identified 101 suspected cholera deaths. Routine surveillance had captured only 48 (48%) of all cholera deaths, and burial per...

Notes on an Epidemic of Cholera in Purnia District

Hurdwar Pilgrims and Cholera, More Especially with Regard to the Epidemic in 1885

Hurdwau has obtained a certain amount of unenviable notoriety on account of the outbreaks of cholera, which are supposed to have originated there during great fairs, and been thence spread far and wide by the pilgrims on the return journey to their homes. On this account the following notes on Hurdwar cholera may be of interest. Before narrating the particulars of the outbreak of this year, I w...

Cases Illustrating Different Types or Degrees of Severity of Cholera at Different Periods

[From notes taken by Baboo Jadab Kuisto Siecae, Asst. Surgn.] By H. Cayley, Surgeon and Superintendent. The following two groups of cases are 01 considerable practical interest as showing how greatly the rate of mortality of cholera varies in different epidmics or at different periods of the same epidemic, irrespective of the plan of treatment adopted. That such variations in type are met with ...

Cholera outbreak in southern Tanzania: risk factors and patterns of transmission.

To identify risk factors and describe the pattern of spread of the 1997 cholera epidemic in a rural area (Ifakara) in southern Tanzania, we conducted a prospective hospital-based, matched case- control study, with analysis based on the first 180 cases and 360 matched controls. Bathing in the river, long distance to water source, and eating dried fish were significantly associated with risk for ...