How many cholera deaths can be averted in Haiti?

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9773, 2011, Pages 1214-1216

  Sack, David A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHOLERA VACCINE;

CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HAITI; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHYDRATION; SANITATION; VACCINATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79953758497     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60356-5     Document Type: Note

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