Administrative Details

Source

World Health Organization

Created

2019-06-20 6:48 PM

Updated

2024-02-09 5:39 AM

Source Documents

WHO - Cholera in Sierra Leone - (update 4) 8 Oct 2012.pdf 2021-11-11 3:23 PM

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

Any person presenting with or dying from acute watery diarrhoea.

Confirmed Case Def

A suspected case with Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139 confirmed by culture or PCR.

Primary Time Criteria

CLINIC

Strains

O1-Unk

Observation Properties

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

5

Earliest Observation

2012-01-01

Latest Observation

2012-10-02

Observation Frequency

Other (123)

Deaths

282

Suspected Cases

20736

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh_R
sCh

Custom

CFR
case fatality rate (%)

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh_R
sCh
CFR
AFR::SLE.Sierra Leone 2012-01-01 2012-10-02 280 20736
AFR::SLE.Sierra Leone 2012-07-01 2012-07-31 3.2%
AFR::SLE.Sierra Leone 2012-09-01 2012-09-30 0.5%
AFR::SLE.Sierra Leone 2012-09-23 2012-10-01 2
AFR::SLE::Western Area 2012-01-01 2012-10-02 10368
Displaying all 5 Observation