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Tap water access and its relationship with cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases in an urban, cholera-endemic setting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

2020-01-01

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Globally 1.3 billion people are at risk of cholera in endemic countries, where nearly 3 million cases occur annually, of which 3 % are fatal. The burden is highest in South-Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where diarrhoeal diseases in general are also a leading cause of mortality and morbidity, especially for children under 5. Uvira, the second largest city of South-Kivu province in the eastern part of the Democratic...

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DOI: 10.17037/pubs.04659288

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