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Volume 25, Number 5—May 2019
Research

Recurrent Cholera Outbreaks, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008–2017

Brecht Ingelbeen1Comments to Author , David Hendrickx1, Berthe Miwanda, Marianne A.B. van der Sande, Mathias Mossoko, Hilde Vochten, Bram Riems, Jean-Paul Nyakio, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Octavie Lunguya, Jan Jacobs, Marleen Boelaert, Benoît Ilunga Kebela, Didier Bompangue, and Jean-Jacques Muyembe
Author affiliations: Santé Publique France, Paris, France (B. Ingelbeen); European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden (B. Ingelbeen, D. Hendrickx); Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (B. Ingelbeen, M.A.B. van der Sande, V. Vanlerberghe, J. Jacobs, M. Boelaert); Landesgesundheitsamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany (D. Hendrickx); Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (B. Miwanda, O. Lunguya, J.-J. Muyembe); Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands (M.A.B. van der Sande); Ministère de la Santé, Kinshasa (M. Mossoko, B.I. Kebela, D. Bompangue); Médecins sans Frontières, Kinshasa (H. Vochten, B. Riems, J.-P. Nyakio); Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa (D. Bompangue)

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Figure 1

Hot spots and non–hot spot locations for cholera and number of suspected cases by location, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008–2017. A) Locations of cholera hot spot and non–hot spot provinces and hot spot health zones (2017 classification). B) Weekly number of suspected cholera cases. Case counts for 2017 are through week 46.

Figure 1. Hot spot and non–hot spot locations for cholera and number of suspected cases by location, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008–2017. A) Locations of cholera hot spot and non–hot spot provinces and hot spot health zones (2017 classification). B) Weekly number of suspected cholera cases. Case counts for 2017 are through week 46.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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