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Safe and widely accessible water is critical for people's health.
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
Supplying safe drinking water in humanitarian emergencies is critical, and source water chlorination is a commonly implemented inter
Purpose. The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was the largest in history.
The risk for cholera infection is >100 times higher for household contacts of cholera patients during the week after the index pa
The provision of safe water in adequate quantities is a basic necessity in emergencies to prevent the transmission of infectious dis
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved