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Public Release: 17-Nov-2016
Cameroon's cholera outbreaks vary by climate region
PLOS
For more than four decades, cholera has recurred in Cameroon, affecting tens of thousands of people a year. Most recently, the West African country was one of four that had a death rate of more than five percent from the bacterial disease, exceeding the World Health Organization's target of less than one percent. Now, researchers have discovered one reason Cameroon has struggled to control the disease. Cholera follows different, distinct outbreak patterns in different climate subzones of the large country, the researchers reported in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
"The study highlights the complexity of cholera transmission, and its close link with environmental and climatic factors," said J. Glenn Morris, M.D., a professor in the College of Medicine and the director of the University of Florida's Emerging Pathogen Institute. "It underscores the fact that there is not a 'one size fits all' approach to cholera control; one has to be familiar with local environmental factors, and their impact on occurrence of cholera."...
Public Release: 17-Nov-2016
Cameroon's cholera outbreaks vary by climate region
PLOS
For more than four decades, cholera has recurred in Cameroon, affecting tens of thousands of people a year. Most recently, the West African country was one of four that had a death rate of more than five percent from the bacterial disease, exceeding the World Health Organization's target of less than one percent. Now, researchers have discovered one reason Cameroon has struggled to control the disease. Cholera follows different, distinct outbreak patterns in different climate subzones of the large country, the researchers reported in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
"The study highlights the complexity of cholera transmission, and its close link with environmental and climatic factors," said J. Glenn Morris, M.D., a professor in the College of Medicine and the director of the University of Florida's Emerging Pathogen Institute. "It underscores the fact that there is not a 'one size fits all' approach to cholera control; one has to be familiar with local environmental factors, and their impact on occurrence of cholera."...