Administrative Details

Source

OCHA

Source URL

Created

2024-09-22 8:01 PM

Updated

2024-09-22 8:14 PM

Source Documents

Cholera Flash Update #2-24 March 2024-B-Final.pdf 2024-09-22 8:00 PM

Notes

"The outbreak is driven by high levels of malnutrition among children, insufficient access to clean water, open defecation practices, latrines with poor hygiene and inadequate sanitation among communities, among other factors."

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

ONSET

Observation Properties

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

5

Earliest Observation

2023-01-01

Latest Observation

2023-03-24

Observation Frequency

Monthly

Deaths

77

Suspected Cases

5035

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh
cCh

Custom

CFR
Case Fatality Rate (%)

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
cCh
CFR
EMR::SOM.Somalia 2023-01-01 2023-03-18 54 4380 1.2
EMR::SOM::SO-HI.Hiiraan 2023-01-01 2023-01-07 273
EMR::SOM::SO-HI.Hiiraan 2023-01-12 2023-01-18 10
EMR::SOM::Puntland 2023-02-24 2023-03-24 23 351
EMR::SOM::Somaliland 2023-01-01 2023-01-31 21
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