The late cholera epidemic in Egypt

The Origin of the Cholera Epidemic of 1883 in Egypt

break of 1883 in Egypt, but will be strictly limited to an endeavour to explain the origin of the outbreak, yet it will not, I trust, fail in creating an interest among the members of the Society. If it does this, it will have served the purpose for which it was written. Egypt is a very extensive country. It extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Equator. It is not, however, this vast countr...

Understanding the Cholera Epidemic, Haiti

After onset of a cholera epidemic in Haiti in mid-October 2010, a team of researchers from France and Haiti implemented field investigations and built a database of daily cases to facilitate identification of communes most affected. Several models were used to identify spatiotemporal clusters, assess relative risk associated with the epidemic's spread, and investigate causes of its rapid expans...

02 Cholera epidemic in Baghdad.pmd

1Department of Medicine; 2Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq (Correspondence to A.M. Al-Abbassi: [email protected]). Received: 26/06/02; accepted: 15/09/04 ABSTRACT An epidemic of cholera in Iraq was anticipated for the year 1999 and a plan of notification and treatment of cases of diarrhoea was made. This paper documents the clinical a...

Inside Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic.

Epidemic Progression of Cholera

natural laws and progressive steps of the disease. It is often said that statistics can be made to prove anything ; but, from personal knowledge of the records of cholera in India, I assert that statistics of the army in that country are a marvel of accuracy, and from them have been deduced most valuable data. The late Dr. James Bryden's works on epidemic disease in India teem with information ...