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Volume 23, Number 1—January 2017
Research

Oral Cholera Vaccine Coverage during an Outbreak and Humanitarian Crisis, Iraq, 2015

Eugene Lam1Comments to Author , Wasan Al-Tamimi, Steven Paul Russell, Muhammad Obaid-ul Islam Butt, Curtis Blanton, Altaf Sadrudin Musani, and Kashmira A. Date
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (E. Lam, S.P. Russell, C. Blanton, K. Date); World Health Organization, Baghdad, Iraq (W. Al-Tamimi, M.O.I. Butt, A.S. Musani)

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Table 3

Estimated oral cholera vaccine coverage, by region and governorate, among refugee camps, internally displaced persons camps, and collective centers targeted for vaccination, Iraq, 2015*

Region, governorates Frequency No. doses Weighted estimate, % (95% CI)
Northern, N = 154,396 1,340 2 91 (87–94)
1 6 (4–9)
Dahuk, n = 98,327 351 2 90 (84–94)
1 7 (4–12)
Erbil, n = 34,675 476 2 93 (90–96)
1 4 (2–7)
Sulaymaniya, n = 21,394 513 2 93 (89–96)


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6 (4–10)
Southern and central, N = 78,046 3,667 2 80 (77–82)
1 10 (8–12)
Anbar, n = 41,070 539 2 98 (93–99)
1 2 (1–6)
Wasit, n = 2,300 523 2 91 (85–95)
1 6 (3–12)
Salah Addin, n = 6,000 528 2 81 (74–86)
1 16 (11–22)
Najaf, n = 14,000 572 2 74 (67–81)
1 10 (6–16)
Baghdad Karkh, n = 6,055 471 2 37 (29–44)
1 28 (20–36)
Kerbala, n = 6,017 529 2 30 (22–38)
1 35 (28–42)
Babil, n = 2,604 505 2 21 (15–27)
1 31 (24–39)

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1Current affiliation: Bureau of Immunization, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA.

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