Epidemic Cholera in a Crowded Urban Environment, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Abstract

We conducted a case–control study to investigate factors associated with epidemic cholera. Water treatment and handwashing may have been protective, highlighting the need for personal hygiene for cholera prevention in contaminated urban environments. We also found a diverse diet, a possible proxy for improved nutrition, was protective against cholera.

Keywords

• bacteria
• epidemic
• waterborne infections
• cholera
• enteric infections
• Vibrio cholerae