Mortality Rates during Cholera Epidemic, Haiti, 2010–2011

The 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti was one of the largest cholera epidemics ever recorded. To estimate the magnitude of the death toll during the first wave of the epidemic, we retrospectively conducted surveys at 4 sites in the northern part of Haiti. Overall, 70,903 participants were included; at...

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Autores principales: Luquero, Francisco J., Rondy, Marc, Boncy, Jacques, Munger, André, Mekaoui, Helmi, Rymshaw, Ellen, Page, Anne-Laure, Toure, Brahima, Degail, Marie Amelie, Nicolas, Sarala, Grandesso, Francesco, Ginsbourger, Maud, Polonsky, Jonathan, Alberti, Kathryn P., Terzian, Mego, Olson, David, Porten, Klaudia, Ciglenecki, Iza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26886511
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2203.141970
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Sumario:The 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti was one of the largest cholera epidemics ever recorded. To estimate the magnitude of the death toll during the first wave of the epidemic, we retrospectively conducted surveys at 4 sites in the northern part of Haiti. Overall, 70,903 participants were included; at all sites, the crude mortality rates (19.1–35.4 deaths/1,000 person-years) were higher than the expected baseline mortality rate for Haiti (9 deaths/1,000 person-years). This finding represents an excess of 3,406 deaths (2.9-fold increase) for the 4.4% of the Haiti population covered by these surveys, suggesting a substantially higher cholera mortality rate than previously reported.

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