Bulletin of the World Health Organization

The global burden of cholera

Mohammad Ali, Anna Lena Lopez, Young Ae You, Young Eun Kim, Binod Sah, Brian Maskery & John Clemens

Volume 90, Number 3, March 2012, 209-218A

Table 2. Cholera incidence rate (per 1000) and source of information by World Health Organization (WHO) mortality stratum

WHO stratum Incidencea Information source
AFR-D 2.00 Beira, Mozambique and WER data
AFR-E 4.00 Beira, Mozambique data
EMR-B 0.10 Assumption-based
EMR-D 1.64 Kolkata data
SEAR-B 0.45 Jakarta data
SEAR-D 1.64 Kolkata data
WPR-B 0.10 Assumption-based

AFR-D, African Region, stratum D; AFR-E, African Region, stratum E; EMR-B, Eastern Mediterranean Region, stratum B; EMR-D, Eastern Mediterranean Region, stratum D; SEAR-B, South-East Asia Region, stratum B; SEAR-D, South-East-Asia Region, stratum D; WER, Weekly Epidemiological Record; WPR-B, Western Pacific Region, stratum B.

a Rate per 1000.

Note: Countries by WHO mortality strata are listed in Appendix A (available at: https://trdrdcsys.ivi.int/cic/appendixA.pdf).