Administrative Details

Source

World Health Organization

Created

2019-06-25 4:45 PM

Updated

2024-02-09 5:39 AM

Source Documents

WHO - Cholera in Zimbabwe - update 26 Dec 2008.pdf 2021-11-11 3:23 PM

Notes

This document was an intial update report from a prior WHO disease outbreak news report (UID 20426). TL was determined based on the initial DON report.

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

2

Earliest Observation

2008-08-01

Latest Observation

2008-12-25

Observation Frequency

Other (76)

Deaths

1518

Suspected Cases

26497

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh_R
sCh

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh_R
sCh
AFR::ZWE.Zimbabwe 2008-08-01 2008-12-25 1518 26497
AFR::ZWE.Zimbabwe 2008-12-14 2008-12-20 5000
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