Following the massive outbreak of cholera in Peru in the summer of 1991, the Peruvian Ministry of Health conducted a detailed study of the city water... Read more...
Fear of a cholera epidemic that could have cost thousands of lives promted officials to think ahead, and plan for the inevitable cholera cases... Read more...
A "non-blind" randomized hand washing intervention study was conducted in a low socioeconomic community in Rangoon to determine if hand... Read more...
An epidemiological survey carried out in the Dodoma region of Tanzania found that high rates of trachoma infection in pre-school children were... Read more...
In February 1992, an epidemic of cholera began in Argentina. The first known cases appeared in a quasi-nomadic aborigine population living by the... Read more...
A total of 144 studies were analysed to assess the impact of improved water supply and sanitation facilities on ascariasis, diarrhoea, dracunculiasis... Read more...