Furthermore, OCV campaigns should be coordinated with WASH activities to ensure a comprehensive approach to cholera control and prevention and to promote the elimination of cholera from Haiti.
Use of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) as part of a complementary set of control activities was considered but initially rejected by policymakers.
Another point to consider among potential control activities are mass vaccination campaigns with the oral cholera vaccine.
The objective of this study was to describe the cholera epidemic affecting Guinea-Bissau from May 2008 to January 2009 focusing on place in order to guide prevention and control activities.
John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology, showed the importance of descriptive epidemiology in cholera epidemics, emphasizing the importance of "place", or the consideration of space, to target prevention and control activities [5].
We describe the cholera epidemic affecting Guinea-Bissau in 2008 focusing on the geographical spread in order to guide prevention and control activities.
Cholera control may still be several years away in Haiti.
Killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccines (kOCVs) are becoming a standard cholera control and prevention tool.
18 Oral cholera vaccine (OCV) has been proposed as an effective adjunct for cholera control in endemic and epidemic settings.
OCVs remain an option for cholera control globally and in Haiti, where OCVs could potentially be used to dampen the recurrence of cholera in the years to come.
