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Diploma in Public Health
Cholera: Clinical Features, Laboratory Diagnosis and Outbreak Control
Infectious and vector-borne disease notes: sudden onset profuse watery stool, vomiting, rapid dehydration and circulatory collapse, the reservoir and the inapparent-to-clinical case ratio. Then laboratory diagnosis, rehydration and the outbreak measures from boiling and chlorinating water to sanitation and tetracycline chemoprophylaxis. By Njugunah J.W.
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