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. 2011;5(5):e1145.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001145. Epub 2011 May 31.

Meeting cholera's challenge to Haiti and the world: a joint statement on cholera prevention and care

Paul Farmer  1 , Charles Patrick Almazor, Emily T Bahnsen, Donna Barry, Junior Bazile, Barry R Bloom, Niranjan Bose, Thomas Brewer, Stephen B Calderwood, John D Clemens, Alejandro Cravioto, Eddy Eustache, Gregory Jérôme, Neha Gupta, Jason B Harris, Howard H Hiatt, Cassia Holstein, Peter J Hotez, Louise C Ivers, Vanessa B Kerry, Serena P Koenig, Regina C Larocque, Fernet Léandre, Wesler Lambert, Evan Lyon, John J Mekalanos, Joia S Mukherjee, Cate Oswald, Jean-William Pape, Anany Gretchko Prosper, Regina Rabinovich, Maxi Raymonville, Jean-Renold Réjouit, Laurence J Ronan, Mark L Rosenberg, Edward T Ryan, Jeffrey D Sachs, David A Sack, Claude Surena, Arjun A Suri, Ralph Ternier, Matthew K Waldor, David Walton, Jonathan L Weigel
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Meeting cholera's challenge to Haiti and the world: a joint statement on cholera prevention and care

Paul Farmer et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011.
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Figure 1. Cholera treatment center, Mirebalais, Haiti, December, 2010.
Photo credit: Jonathan L. Weigel, Harvard Medical School and Partners In Health.
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