Cholera outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa during 2010-2019: a descriptive analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cholera remains a public health threat but is inequitably distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of standardized reporting and inconsistent outbreak definitions limit our understanding of cholera outbreak epidemiology.

Methods

From a database of cholera incidence and mortality, we extracted data from sub-Saharan Africa and reconstructed outbreaks of suspected cholera starting in January 2010 to December 2019 based on location-specific average weekly incidence rate thresholds. We then described the distribution of key outbreak metrics.

Results

We identified 999 suspected cholera outbreaks in 744 regions across 25 sub-Saharan African countries. The outbreak periods accounted for 1.8 billion person-months (2% of the total during this period) from January

SUBMITTER: Zheng Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9439956 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature