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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
After the Ebola outbreak was declared in Sierra Leone, in June 2014, early messages about the high mortality rate of Ebola were met
In a disaster context, where risk for diarrhoeal disease is elevated, personal hygiene, i.e.
For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved