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Anecdotal evidence and available literature indicated that contaminated water played a major role in spreading the prolonged cholera
Safe and widely accessible water is critical for people's health.
Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
On May 2, 2009 an outbreak of typhoid fever began in rural villages along the Malawi-Mozambique border resulting in 748 illnesses an
The risk for cholera infection is >100 times higher for household contacts of cholera patients during the week after the index pa
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved