Cholera

Children Most Affected By Two Epidemics in Indonesia This Year

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 7th, 1997

Indonesia apparently experienced two cholera epidemics earlier this year.

Dorothy Preslar, ProMed AHEAD Program Officer and Federation of American Scientists, reported in a ProMed Internet communication (vol. 157/no. 159) that an outbreak of a cholera-related disease in the western Indonesian islands of Simeulue and West Aceh was reported in a February 14, 1997 news story. The outbreak killed 11 and infected about 250 others. Eight of the dead were in the Central Simeulue sub-district of the country.

Additionally, she noted, a separate cholera epidemic was reported on March 30, 1997, by media indicating four deaths and 166 hospitalized in West...

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