Administrative Details

Source

South Africa National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Vol 7 No. 2

Created

2019-01-25 4:11 PM

Updated

2024-05-13 3:39 AM

Source Documents

Notes

summary statistics by province

Epidemiologic Details

Suspected Case Def

In an area where there is a cholera epidemic, a patient aged 2 years or more develops acute watery diarrhoea, with or without vomiting

Confirmed Case Def

A confirmed cholera case is when Vibrio cholerae is isolated from any patient with diarrhoea

Primary Time Criteria

CLINIC

Strains

O1-Unk

Observation Properties

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

9

Earliest Observation

2008-11-15

Latest Observation

2009-04-30

Observation Frequency

Other (166)

Deaths

65

Suspected Cases

12706

Confirmed Cases

1144

Observation Fields

Standard

Location
TL
TR
Primary
Phantom
deaths
sCh
cCh

Observations

Location
TL
TR
deaths
sCh
cCh
AFR::ZAF::KwaZulu-Natal 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 1 2 2
AFR::ZAF::Limpopo 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 26 5460 612
AFR::ZAF::Mpumalanga 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 30 6855 387
AFR::ZAF::Gauteng 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 4 286 71
AFR::ZAF::North West 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 4 91 60
AFR::ZAF::Eastern Cape 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 0 2 2
AFR::ZAF::Free State 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 0 1 1
AFR::ZAF::Western Cape 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 0 8 8
AFR::ZAF::Northern Cape 2008-11-15 2009-04-30 0 1 1
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