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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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Table 2

Case-fatality rate among suspected cholera cases, 2008–2017, and among patients admitted to a cholera treatment center, 2015–2017, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Criterion and location
 Patient age, y
 No. deaths
 No. (%) cases
 Case-fatality rate, %
Suspected cholera cases
Overall 5,231 270,852 (100) 1.9
Hot spot health zones Total 1,407 127,642 (100) 1.1
<5 292 33,477 (26) 0.9
>5 1,116 94,082 (74) 1.2
Non–hot spot health zones in hot spot provinces Total 1,745 96,570 (100) 1.8
<5 301 23,615 (24) 1.3
>5 1,440 72,777 (75) 2.0
Non–hot spot provinces Total 2,079 46,640 (100) 4.5
<5 318 8,916 (19) 3.6
>5
 1,775
 37,624 (81)
 4.7
CTC admissions
Overall 267 9,076 (100) 2.9
Non–hot spot health zones in hotspot provinces Total 3 1,294 (100) 0.2
<5 0 357 (28) 0.0
5–19 1 625 (48) 0.2
20–49 1 241 (19) 0.4
>50 1 63 (5) 1.6
Non–hot spot provinces Total 264 7,782 (100) 3.4
< 5 43 1,759 (23) 2.4
5–19 68 2,442 (31) 2.8
20–49 104 2,609 (34) 4.0
>50 32 752 (10) 4.3

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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