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Article: Cholera - Peru, 1991.
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- February 15, 1991
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On January 29,1991, the General Office of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health (MOH) in Lima, Peru, received reports of an increase in gastroenteritis in Chancay, a coastal district approximately 1 1/2 hours by road north of Lima. On January 30, teams from the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP), Division of Epidemiology, MOH, traveled to Chancay to investigate this problem.
Investigation identified an outbreak of diarrheal illness that had begun on January 23. Illness in initial cases was characterized by voluminous watery diarrhea, vomiting, and to a lesser extent, severe muscle cramping. Vibrio cholerae O1, Inaba, biotype El ...