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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
Methods and findings We developed a micro-simulation model and calibrated it to both the epidemic curve and the sma
In September 2016, Médecins Sans Frontières responded to a hepatitis E (HEV) outbreak in Chad by implementing water treatment and hy
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