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 5. Estimated annual number of cholera cases in non-endemic countries

Country WHO stratum Cases Deaths
Afghanistan EMR-D 17 157 549
Algeria AFR-D 2 143 83
Botswana AFR-E 51 2
Burkina Faso AFR-D 17 129 651
Cambodia WPR-B 16 805 168
Central African Republic AFR-E 173 8
Djibouti EMR-D 190 6
Eritrea AFR-E 271 10
Fiji WPR-B 377 3
Gabon AFR-D 1 119 43
Lao People's Democratic Republic WPR-B 5 426 54
Madagascar AFR-D 23 180 881
Malaysia WPR-B 2 293 24
Marshall Islands WPR-B 18 0
Micronesia (Federated States of) WPR-B 143 1
Seychelles AFR-D 103 3
Sri Lanka SEAR-B 10 0
Timor-Leste SEAR-D 658 20
Total 87 246 2 506

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; WPR-B, Western Pacific Region, stratum B.