Lessons learned during public health response to cholera epidemic in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2087-2093

  Tappero, Jordan W ^a   Tauxe, Robert V ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD DEATH; CHOLERA; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; HAITI; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYGIENE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALARIA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NUTRITION; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SANITATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930477162     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1711.110827     Document Type: Article

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