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STRATEGIES TO PREVENT CHOLERA INTRODUCTION DURING INTERNATIONAL PERSONNEL DEPLOYMENTS: A COMPUTATIONAL MODELING ANALYSIS BASED ON THE 2010 HAITI OUTBREAK
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Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA / Yale University. Global Health Justice Partnership. New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA / Yale University. Global Health Justice Partnership. New Haven, Connecticut, USA / Yale Law School, New Haven. Connecticut, USA
Yale University. Global Health Justice Partnership. New Haven, Connecticut, USA / Yale Law School, New Haven. Connecticut, USA / Yale School of Public Health. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. New Haven Connecticut, USA
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA / Yale University. Global Health Justice Partnership. New Haven, Connecticut, USA / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA / Yale University. Global Health Justice Partnership. New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA / Yale University. Global Health Justice Partnership. New Haven, Connecticut, USA / Yale Law School, New Haven. Connecticut, USA
Yale University. Global Health Justice Partnership. New Haven, Connecticut, USA / Yale Law School, New Haven. Connecticut, USA / Yale School of Public Health. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. New Haven Connecticut, USA
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA / Yale University. Global Health Justice Partnership. New Haven, Connecticut, USA / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz. Salvador, BA, Brasil
Yale School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. New Haven Connecticut, USA
Abstract
Introduction of Vibrio cholerae to Haiti during the deployment of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in 2010 resulted in one of the largest cholera epidemics of the modern era. Following the outbreak, a UN-commissioned independent panel recommended three pre-deployment intervention strategies to minimize the risk of cholera introduction in future peacekeeping operations: screening for V. cholerae carriage, administering prophylactic antimicrobial chemotherapies, or immunizing with oral cholera vaccines. However, uncertainty regarding the effectiveness of these approaches has forestalled their implementation by the UN. We assessed how the interventions would have impacted the likelihood of the Haiti cholera epidemic.
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