Rapid Assessment of Cholera-related Deaths, Artibonite Department, Haiti, 2010

Abstract

We evaluated a high (6%) cholera case-fatality rate in Haiti. Of 39 community decedents, only 23% consumed oral rehydration salts at home, and 59% did not seek care, whereas 54% of 48 health facility decedents died after overnight admission. Early in the cholera epidemic, care was inadequate or nonexistent.

Keywords

• cholera
• diarrhea
• mortality
• bacteria
• oral rehydration therapy
• risk assessment