Observation Collection 20429

Initial Data Entry Complete

Location: AFR::ZWE.Zimbabwe

Administrative Details

Source

World Health Organization

Source URL

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2009/cholera_zim_20090130/en/

Created

2019-06-25 5:20 PM

Updated

2024-02-09 5:39 AM

Source Documents

WHO - Efforts must be intensified to control Zimbabwe cholera outbreak [WHO PRESS RELEASE] update 2 Jan 2009.pdf 2021-11-11 3:23 PM

Notes

The source document included information on cholera reported in South Africa, but was not listed in a separate OC due to lack of information provided (only lists sCh as 3000).

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

1

Earliest Observation

2008-08-01

Latest Observation

2009-01-29

Observation Frequency

Other (181)

Deaths

3161

Suspected Cases

60401

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh

Observations

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Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
AFR::ZWE.Zimbabwe 2008-08-01 2009-01-29 3161 60401
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