Administrative Details

Source

Cholera epidemic in Yemen, 2016–18: an analysis of surveillance data (The Lancet Global Health)

Created

2026-06-18 2:15 PM

Updated

2026-06-18 4:25 PM

Source Documents

PIIS2214109X18302304.pdf 2026-06-18 4:17 PM
mmc1.pdf 2026-06-18 4:17 PM

Notes

The fully age-stratified data from the supplement was extracted using WebPlotDigitizer and normalizing distances for percentages to the total number of suspected cases and deaths reported for under and over 5s in the manuscript. Also note that for completeness the under 5 data is extracted twice (once time-stratified from the manuscript, and once for the full time-period from the supplement). Due to some missing age data, the age-specific counts do not add up to the overall primary case counts.

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

Any patient presenting with three or more liquid stools with or without vomiting in the past 24 h.

Confirmed Case Def

A suspected case with Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139 confirmed by culture.

Primary Time Criteria

CLINIC

Primary Test Type

Culture

Observation Properties

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

26

Earliest Observation

2016-09-28

Latest Observation

2018-03-12

Observation Frequency

Other (417)

Deaths

7105

Suspected Cases

3288055

Confirmed Cases

2553

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh
cCh
tested

Custom

age_L
The lower bound of the age range of cases in years.
age_R
The upper bound of the age range of cases in years.
cCh_RDT
The number of confirmed positive cases detected by Rapid Diagnostic Testing (RDT).
tested_RDT
The number of cases tested by Rapid Diagnostic Testing (RDT).

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
cCh
tested
age_L age_R cCh_RDT tested_RDT
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2017-04-23 120 25839 181 491 251 954
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2017-04-24 2017-07-02 1663 277167 681 1286 5873 8154
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2017-07-03 2018-03-12 602 800677 425 1252 7100 25686
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2017-04-23 42 8509 31 143 4 44 208
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2017-04-23 74 17075 146 336 5 206 743
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2017-04-24 2017-07-02 252 50800 21 52 4 629 966
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2017-04-24 2018-03-12 1395 225018 651 1213 5 5222 7153
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2017-07-03 2018-03-12 159 256423 47 147 4 1245 6021
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2017-07-03 2018-03-12 438 534361 370 1043 5 5790 19428
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 453 315732 0 4
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 207 146370 5 9
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 153 116065 10 14
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 63 85761 15 19
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 60 82331 20 24
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 93 79474 25 29
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 90 60604 30 34
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 122 48121 35 39
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 86 34781 40 44
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 86 27162 45 49
EMR::YEM.Yemen 2016-09-28 2018-03-12 150 28111 50 54
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Location