Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2011)

Cholera in United States Associated with Epidemic in Hispaniola

  • Anna E. Newton,
  • Katherine E. Heiman,
  • Ann Schmitz,
  • Tom Török,
  • Andria Apostolou,
  • Heather Hanson,
  • Prabhu Gounder,
  • Susan Bohm,
  • Katie Kurkjian,
  • Michele B. Parsons,
  • Deborah Talkington,
  • Steven Stroika,
  • Lawrence C. Madoff,
  • Franny Elson,
  • David Sweat,
  • Venessa Cantu,
  • Okey Akwari,
  • Barbara E. Mahon,
  • Eric D. Mintz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.110808
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 11
pp. 2166 – 2168

Abstract

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Cholera is rare in the United States (annual average 6 cases). Since epidemic cholera began in Hispaniola in 2010, a total of 23 cholera cases caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 have been confirmed in the United States. Twenty-two case-patients reported travel to Hispaniola and 1 reported consumption of seafood from Haiti.

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