Study Finds That Young Children Bear Greatest Burden Of Cholera

A new study of the burden of cholera in three impoverished regions of the world, published February 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, found that young children bear the brunt of the disease. The study also found that out of the three study sites- Jakarta (Indonesia), Kolkata (India), and Beira (Mozambique)-the African site had the highest incidence of cholera.

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Filed under: Tropical on February 26th, 2008