Administrative Details

Source

High mortality in a cholera outbreak in western Kenya after post-election violence in 2008. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Dec;81(6):1085-90. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0400.

Created

2019-01-25 4:11 PM

Updated

2024-02-09 5:38 AM

Notes

Body text(546 cases), figure 2(628 cases), and Table 1(396 cases) have different numbers of cholera patients, extracted based on figure 2 which have epicurve format; district levels are based on 2009 units. Cannot find current matched geographical units

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

watery diarrhea (at least three bowel movements in 24 hours) of sudden onset in a person 5 years of age

Primary Time Criteria

ONSET

Observation Properties

Case and death counts could include double-counting of overlapping observations
# of Observations

1

Earliest Observation

2008-01-01

Latest Observation

2008-04-15

Observation Frequency

Other (105)

Deaths

53

Suspected Cases

790

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
sCh
deaths

Custom

CFR
No description

Observations

Location
TL
TR
sCh
deaths
CFR
AFR::KEN::Nyanza 2008-01-01 2008-04-15 790 53 6.70%
Displaying 1 Observation