Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Jul;17(7):1299-300. doi: 10.3201/eid1707.110625.
With more than 250,000 cases and 4,000 deaths in the first 6 months, the cholera epidemic in Haiti has been one of the most explosive and deadly in recent history. It is also one of the best documented, with detailed surveillance information available from the beginning of the epidemic, which allowed its spread to all parts of the country to be traced. Piarroux et al. make good use of this information, along with their own careful field investigations, to trace the epidemic to its beginning and propose an explanation for its origins.
在头 6 个月中,海地的霍乱疫情已出现超过 25 万例病例和 4000 例死亡,是近年来最具爆发性和致命性的疫情之一。该疫情也是记录最详细的疫情之一,从疫情开始就有详细的监测信息,这使得能够追踪到疫情在全国范围内的传播。Piarroux 等人充分利用了这些信息,以及他们自己的仔细实地调查,追溯到了疫情的开端,并提出了对其起源的解释。