Administrative Details

Source

Occurrence of cholera in Lukanga fishing camp, Kapiri-mposhi district, Zambia: Zambia Ministry of Health and World Health Organization Zambia Office

Created

2022-06-11 5:34 PM

Updated

2024-02-09 5:38 AM

Source Documents

Occurrence of cholera in Lukanga.pdf 2024-02-03 9:21 PM

Notes

1. The bacterium was sensitive to doxycycline. No statement is made about other tetracyclines. 2. Two rounds of oral cholera vaccine were given in Lukanga Swamps, intending to reach a total of 5,000 people: one round from October 28 to November 5, 2016, and one round from November 26-30, 2016.

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

Any person admitted to the cholera treatment centre with acute watery diarrhoea, with or without vomiting

Confirmed Case Def

UNKNOWN

Primary Time Criteria

CLINIC

Primary Test Type

Culture

Tetracycline Resistance?

No

Observation Properties

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

5

Earliest Observation

2016-09-11

Latest Observation

2016-10-21

Observation Frequency

Other (40)

Deaths

2

Suspected Cases

36

Confirmed Cases

10

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh
cCh
tested

Custom

cCh_RDT
Number of confirmed cases in this time frame and at this location detected by Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT)
tested_RDT
Total number of cases tested using the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT)

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
cCh
tested
cCh_RDT tested_RDT
AFR::ZMB::Central::Kapiri-Mposhi::Waya Health Centre CTC 2016-09-11 2016-10-21 2 27
AFR::ZMB::Central::Kapiri-Mposhi::Kapiri-Mposhi Urban 2016-09-11 2016-10-21 5
AFR::ZMB::Central::Kabwe 2016-09-11 2016-10-21 3
AFR::ZMB::Central::Chibombo 2016-09-11 2016-10-21 1
AFR::ZMB::Central::(Chibombo|Kabwe|Kapiri-Mposhi) 2016-09-11 2016-10-21 10 10 22 22
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