Administrative Details

Source

Cholera Outbreak Report 25 August 2011 - 29 February 2012, Hagadera Kenya, IRC, UNHCR (Twine)

Created

2019-01-25 4:11 PM

Updated

2024-02-09 5:39 AM

Source Documents

outbreaks_Cholera_ke_hagadera_20110825.pdf 2021-11-11 3:23 PM

Notes

Cases confirmed. Also based epidemic week on ISO epidemic weeks, not necessarily consistent with histogram or dates reported in summary. Of the total cholera cases in Dadaab, 126 (9.9%) stool samples were collected and tested at Hagadera laboratory. 51 (40.5%) samples tested positive for Vibrio cholerae Inaba.

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

A patient aged 2 years or more develops acute watery diarrhoea, with or without dehydration.

Confirmed Case Def

Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139 is isolated from any patient with diarrhoea.

Strains

O1-ElTor-In

Observation Properties

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

32

Earliest Observation

2011-08-01

Latest Observation

2012-03-31

Observation Frequency

Other (35)

Deaths

3

Suspected Cases

1961

Confirmed Cases

52

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh
cCh

Custom

age_L
lower bound of age range
age_R
upper bound of age range

Observations

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