Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2011)

Travel Health Alert Notices and Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Florida, USA, 2011

  • Monica U. Selent,
  • Amanda McWhorter,
  • Valery M. Beau De Rochars,
  • Rebecca Myers,
  • David W. Hunter,
  • Clive M. Brown,
  • Nicole J. Cohen,
  • Noelle A. Molinari,
  • Kirsten Warwar,
  • Danisha Robbins,
  • Katherine E. Heiman,
  • Anna E. Newton,
  • Ann Schmitz,
  • Michael J. Oraze,
  • Nina Marano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.110721
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 11
pp. 2169 – 2171

Abstract

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To enhance the timeliness of medical evaluation for cholera-like illness during the 2011 cholera outbreak in Hispaniola, printed Travel Health Alert Notices (T-HANs) were distributed to travelers from Haiti to the United States. Evaluation of the T-HANs’ influence on travelers’ health care–seeking behavior suggested T-HANs might positively influence health care–seeking behavior.

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