Patient X/0 who is credited with starting the outbreak became ill with cholera in a neighboring country (Sudan) but spread the disease to others in Uganda through water contamination.
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, O139
Observation Properties
Case and death counts could include double-counting of overlapping observations