Cholera Outbreak in Senegal in 2005: Was Climate a Factor?

Cholera Outbreak in Senegal in 2005: Was Climate a Factor?

Cholera is an acute diarrheal illness caused by Vibrio cholerae and occurs as widespread epidemics in Africa. In 2005, there were 31,719 cholera cases, with 458 deaths in the Republic of Senegal. We retrospectively investigated the climate origin of the devastating floods in mid-August 2005, in the...

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Main Authors: Constantin de Magny, Guillaume, Thiaw, Wassila, Kumar, Vadlamani, Manga, Noël M., Diop, Bernard M., Gueye, Lamine, Kamara, Mamina, Roche, Benjamin, Murtugudde, Raghu, Colwell, Rita R.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3432123/

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