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A blueprint for eliminating cholera by 2030

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Cholera is endemic in 47 countries, but deaths from this disease can be eliminated with a package of low-cost measures implemented by community healthcare workers.

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Fig. 1: Global burden of cholera, with case-fatality rates.

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The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, is grateful to the governments of Bangladesh, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom for providing core, unrestricted support.

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    Md Taufiqul Islam, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan & Firdausi Qadri

  2. Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University, Orange, New South Wales, Australia

    Allen G. Ross & Adrian C. Sleigh

  3. Menzies Health Institute Queensland and School of Pharmacy and Medical Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

    Nigel A. McMillan

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Islam, M.T., Ross, A.G., Sleigh, A.C. et al. A blueprint for eliminating cholera by 2030. Nat Med 28, 1747–1749 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01898-w

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