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Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Cholera has been eliminated as a public health problem in high-income countries that have implemented sanitation system separating t
Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
In order to ensure maximum consumer benefits (e.g.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.