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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
After the 2015 earthquake in Nepal that killed approximately 9,000 people, the country faced an increased risk of cholera outbreaks
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Changes in water quality of a sand aquifer on the east coast of Sri Lanka due to the 26 December 2004 tsunami and subsequent remedia
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
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.