Key documents
Documents
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WHO guidance on formulation of national policy on the control of cholera
1992, WHO/CDD/SER/92.16
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Guidelines for the control of epidemics due to Shigella dysenteriae type 1
1994, WHO/CDR/95.4
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Cholera and other epidemic diarrhoeal diseases control - Technical cards on environmental sanitation
1997, WHO/EMC/DIS/97.6
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Epidemic diarrhoeal disease preparedness and response - Training and practice,
(English and French)
1998 (Participant's manual) WHO/EMC/DIS/97.3 Rev.l
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Epidemic diarrhoeal disease preparedness and response - Training and practice
(English and French)
1998 (Facilitator's guide)
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Background document : The diagnosis, treatment and prevention of typhoid fever [new window]
WHO/V&B/03.07
Publications
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Guidelines for cholera control. [new window]
Geneva, WHO, 1993. Click on the link to go to bookorders.who.int, where you can perform a search on this publication.
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Laboratory methods for the diagnosis of epidemic dysentery and cholera
(English and French)
1999
Videos
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Cholera: videos [new window]
Protecting ourselves and our communities from Cholera, 2000 (41 min); Le Choléra comment nous en protéger et protéger notre communauté, 2000 (41 mn); Cholera : the unnecessary disease. (31 mn) A new time for cholera (Vibrio cholerae 0139). (24 mn)
Global data (english and french)
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Cholera, 2001 Weekly epidemiological record.
(No 31, of each year)
WHO position papers (english and french)
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Cholera vaccines [pdf]
Published on 20 April 2001, Vol. 76, 16 (pp 117-124)
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Typhoid vaccines [pdf]
Published on 11 August 2000, Vol. 75, 32 (pp 257-264)