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Notes from the Field: Ongoing Cholera Epidemic - Tanzania, 2015-2016

Rupa Narra et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. .
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Number of reported cholera cases* — Tanzania,† August 15, 2015–November 26, 2016 * Suspected cholera (severe dehydration or death from acute watery diarrhea in a person aged ≥5 years, or acute, profuse watery diarrhea with or without vomiting in a person aged ≥2 years in a region with an active cholera outbreak) and confirmed cases (isolation of V. cholerae O1 from the stool of a person with suspected cholera). † Excluding the Zanzibar archipelago.
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