Cholera - are we containing the crisis?

  • Prof. Gboyego A Ogunbanjo Medunsa
  • David N Durrheim Communicable Disease Control

Abstract

The last few months have witnessed a massive cholera epidemic in KwaZulu-Natal province. Also, cholera has recently been reported in Mpumalanga North-West, Gauteng and Western Cape provinces. In the Northern province, an unusual number of patients with diarrhoeal disease have been reported, and at least one death confirmed as due to cholera at autopsy.

Author Biographies

Prof. Gboyego A Ogunbanjo, Medunsa
Dept. of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care
David N Durrheim, Communicable Disease Control
Department of Health
Issue
Vol 23 No 2 (2001)
Section
Editorials
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