Responding to cholera in post-earthquake Haiti.
@article{Walton2011RespondingTC, title={Responding to cholera in post-earthquake Haiti.}, author={David A. Walton and Louise C Ivers}, journal={The New England journal of medicine}, year={2011}, volume={364 1}, pages={ 3-5 } }
Cholera had not been seen in Haiti in at least 100 years, but 9 months after the January 2009 earthquake, it somewhat unexpectedly emerged in a densely populated zone with little sanitary infrastructure and limited access to potable water.
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