Volume 1, Number 4—October 1995
Dispatch
Epidemic Cholera in the New World: Translating Field Epidemiology into New Prevention Strategies
Table 1
Cholera cases by country, as reported to the Pan American Health Organization, 1991 through 1994
| Number of reported cases |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Date of first report | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 |
| Argentina | Feb. 5, 1992 | 0 | 553 | 2,080 | 889 |
| Belize | Jan. 9, 1992 | 0 | 159 | 135 | 6 |
| Bolivia | Aug. 26 1991 | 206 | 22,260 | 10,134 | 2,710 |
| Brazil | Apr. 8, 1991 | 2,101 | 30,054 | 56,286 | 49,455 |
| Chile | Apr. 12,1991 | 41 | 73 | 32 | 1 |
| Colombia | Mar. 10, 1991 | 11,979 | 15,129 | 230 | 996 |
| Costa Rica | Jan. 3, 1992 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 38 |
| Ecuador | Mar. 1, 1991 | 46,320 | 31,870 | 6,833 | 1,785 |
| El Salvador | Aug. 19, 1992 | 947 | 8,106 | 6,573 | 11,739 |
| French Guiana | Dec. 14, 1992 | 1 | 16 | 2 | NR a |
| Guatemala | July 24, 1991 | 3,652 | 15,686 | 30,605 | 4,227 |
| Guyana | Nov. 5, 1992 | 0 | 5 | 66 | 0 |
| Honduras | Oct. 13, 1991 | 17 | 388 | 2,290 | 4,965 |
| Mexico | June 13, 1991 | 2,690 | 8,162 | 10,712 | 4,059 |
| Nicaragua | Nov. 12, 1991 | 1 | 3,067 | 6,631 | 7,821 |
| Panama | Sept.10, 1991 | 1,178 | 2,416 | 42 | 0 |
| Paraguay | Jan. 25, 1993 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Peru | Jan. 23, 1991 | 322,562 | 210,836 | 71,448 | 23,887 |
| Suriname | Mar. 6, 1992 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| United States | Apr. 9, 1991 | 26 | 103 | 22 | 34 |
| Venezuela | Nov. 29, 1991 | 13 | 2,842 | 409 | 0 |
| Total | 391,734 | 352,300 | 204,547 | 112,612 | |
a NR = no reports received.
Source: ref. 2.
