[New epidemic outbreak of cholera in Lima].

We report a new outbreak of cholera on the beginning of last Summer (Dec. 91 and Jan 92). Were 281 patients, 63% male and 36% female, treated in our Cholera Unit of treatment; all of them coming from marginal-urban populations. There was a rate of lethality of inpatients of 0.46% and a mortality of 0.25% over the total of patients that we saw in our hospital; on this summer the outbreak is early and greatest than the summer of 1991. We can conclude that because of epidemic behavior during the whole 1991 and in the time elapsed of 1992, Peru has become an endemic zone of this new disease, while the current epidemiologic settings stay unchanged.