Title

Managing Cholera As A Preventable Global Threat

Keywords

Cholera; Global tragedy; Oral cholera vaccines

Abstract

The significant annual burden of disease from cholera remains a preventable global tragedy. An oral cholera vaccine (OCV) emergency stockpile represents a good beginning for improved global cholera management, and modeling studies suggest that realizing the greatest impacts of using OCVs for outbreak response depends on national preparedness. Using the stockpile will create opportunities to gain valuable evidence and experience about the potential role and relative cost-effectiveness of OCVs. It is time to see cholera as a serious and preventable global threat worthy of coordinated attention and management, active global surveillance, and increased human and financial resource investments. Stakeholders at all levels should seek to assess cholera risks and risk management opportunities and begin to collect improved evidence about the benefits, risks, and costs of new OCVs. © 2013 Thompson KM, et al.

Publication Date

4-1-2013

Publication Title

Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination

Volume

4

Issue

3

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7560.1000183

Socpus ID

84879930204 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84879930204

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