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Safe and widely accessible water is critical for people's health.
Maroua, the capital of Far North Cameroon, is frequently affected by outbreaks of waterborne diseases.
Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
The rapid influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has led to the formation of huge camps, built on difficult terra
Bucket chlorination (where workers stationed at water sources manually add chlorine solution to recipients’ water containers during
Camps are places of refuge for people fleeing conflict and disaster, but they can be dangerous, especially for women and girls.
The risk for cholera infection is >100 times higher for household contacts of cholera patients during the week after the index pa
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved