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	WHO scales up cholera vigilance in Khartoum, Sudan World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO View PDF(105) Download (28) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: cholera, outbreak, South Sudan, Source: http://www.emro.who.int/pdf/sdn/sudan-ne
	Cholera - Q & A - Fact Sheet UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2019) C2 View PDF(37) Download (30) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: factsheet, cholera, Source: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in
	Economic burden of cholera in Asia Vittal Mogasalea, Vijayalaxmi V. Mogasale; Amber Hsiao (2019) CC Open external link (324) Add to my MEDBOX https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.09.099 Our analysis included 14 Asian countries that were estimated to have a total of 850,000 choleracases and 25,500 deaths in 2015 While, the WHO cholera report documented around 60,000 cholera casesand 28 deaths. We estimated around $20.2 million (I$74.4 million) in out-of-pocket expenditures, $8.5million (I$30.1 million) in public sector costs, and $12.1 million (I$43.7 million) in lost productivity in2015. Lost productivity due to premature deaths was estimated to be $985.7 million (I$3,638.6 million).Our scenario analyses excluding mortality costs showed that the economic burden ranged from 20.3%($8.3 million) to 139.3% ($57.1 million) in high and low scenarios when compared to the base case sce-nario ($41 million) and was least at 10.1% ($4.1 million) when estimated based on cholera cases reportedto WH Tags: vaccine, burden of disease, economic burden, Cholera, Analysis, journal article, Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar
	WHO AFRO Outbreaks and Other Emergencies, Week 30: 22 - 28 July 2019 World Health Organization (2019) C_WHO View PDF(403) Download (63) Add to my MEDBOX This Weekly Bulletin focuses on selected acute public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 74 events in the region. This week’s edition covers key new and ongoing events, including: Cholera in Chad Humanitarian crisis in South Sudan Ebola virus disease in Democratic Republic of the Congo Dengue fever in Côte d’Ivoire. Tags: cholera, dengue, Dengue fever, ebola, humanitarian crisis, Source: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in
	More than a million people to be vaccinated in phase 2 of a huge cholera vaccination campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO View PDF(132) Download (59) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: cholera, outbreak control, Vaccination, DRC, Source: https://afro.who.int/news/more-million-p
	Cholera Outbreak Situation Updates- Uganda. Kampala Situation Update no. 38 14 February 2019 World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO View PDF(183) Download (127) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: cholera, outbreak control, Uganda, Situation Report, Source: https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/f
	Zambia Cholera Situation Report - 2 April 2019 World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Africa (2019) C_WHO View PDF(232) Download (105) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: cholera, Situation Report, Zambia, Source: https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/f
	Mozambique: Two Cyclones: Idai and Kenneth (As of 22 May 2019) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2019) C2 View PDF(300) Download (145) Add to my MEDBOX In March and April 2019, Mozambique was hit by two consecutive tropical cyclones that left a trail of death, damage and destruction in their path. Tags: cyclone, funding, malaria, cholera, Source: https://reliefweb.int/report/mozambique/
	Mozambique: Tropical Cyclones Idai and Kenneth, Situation Report 06 (10 May 2019) World Health Organization (2019) C_WHO View PDF(393) Download (107) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: cyclone, Idai, kenneth, IDP, Shelter, cholera, Source: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in
	Bulletin: Cholera and AWD Outbreaks in Eastern and Southern Africa, Regional Update for 2019 - as of 1 April 2019 UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2019) CC View PDF(564) Download (143) Add to my MEDBOX Approximately 3,385 cholera / AWD cases including 19 deaths have been reported in 10 out of the 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR); with an average Case Fatality Rate of 0.6%, since the beginning of 2019. These countries include; Angola, Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Somalia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Kenya accounts for 35.4 % (1,198) of the total case load reported this year, followed by Mozambique at 31% (1,048) Tags: cholera, outbreak control, situation update, Source: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in

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