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: Guillaume Constantin de Magny, Wassila Thiaw, Vadlamani Kumar, Noël M Manga, Bernard M Diop, Lamine Gueye, Mamina Kamara, Benjamin Roche, Raghu Murtugudde, Rita R Colwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22952995/?tool=EBI