TY - JOUR AU - Luquero, Francisco AU - Rondy, Marc AU - Boncy, Jacques AU - Munger, André AU - Mekaoui, Helmi AU - Rymshaw, Ellen AU - Page, Anne-Laure AU - Toure, Brahima AU - Degail, Marie Amelie AU - Nicolas, Sarala AU - Grandesso, Francesco AU - Ginsbourger, Maud AU - Polonsky, Jonathan AU - Alberti, Kathryn AU - Terzian, Mego AU - Olson, David AU - Porten, Klaudia AU - Ciglenecki, Iza T1 - Mortality Rates during Cholera Epidemic, Haiti, 2010–2011 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 3 SP - 410 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti was one of the largest cholera epidemics ever recorded. To estimate the magnitude of the death toll during the first wave of the epidemic, we retrospectively conducted surveys at 4 sites in the northern part of Haiti. Overall, 70,903 participants were included; at all sites, the crude mortality rates (19.1–35.4 deaths/1,000 person-years) were higher than the expected baseline mortality rate for Haiti (9 deaths/1,000 person-years). This finding represents an excess of 3,406 deaths (2.9-fold increase) for the 4.4% of the Haiti population covered by these surveys, suggesting a substantially higher cholera mortality rate than previously reported. KW - cholera KW - burden KW - mortality KW - Haiti KW - outbreak KW - epidemic KW - bacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2203.141970 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/3/14-1970_article ER - End of Reference