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Cholera Outbreaks in South-East Asia

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Cholera Outbreaks

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This chapter highlights the cholera situation in South Asia and the Bay of Bengal region, the original ‘homeland’ of cholera. A detailed discussion of cholera outbreaks in individual countries in South-East Asia follows. The countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) SEARO (South-East Asia Region) region are discussed first, followed by discussions about the other countries in South-East Asia that do not fall within the purview of the WHO SEARO classification of the member countries of the region. Therefore, the chapter attempts to provide a comprehensive yet precise outline of the major cholera outbreaks that have occurred in the region over the years.

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Bharati, K., Bhattacharya, S.K. (2014). Cholera Outbreaks in South-East Asia. In: Nair, G., Takeda, Y. (eds) Cholera Outbreaks. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 379. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/82_2014_362

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