Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation, Delhi, India.
Former DG, Indian Council of Medical Research, Delhi, India.
J Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 20;224(12 Suppl 2):S710-S716. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiab436.
Cholera outbreaks currently account for 1.3 to 4.0 million cases and cause between 21 000 and 143 000 deaths worldwide. Cholera is preventable by proper sanitization and immunization; however, in many developing nations such as India, cholera disease is endemic. The surveillance system in India does not adequately capture the actual number of cases. As a result, it is important to utilize limited public health resources correctly in India and other developing counties more effectively to reach vulnerable communities. In this study, we analyze how studies make sense of cholera transmission and spread in India from 1996 to 2015. Furthermore, we analyze how a more sensitive surveillance system can contribute to cholera eradication by giving rise to outbreak preparedness.
霍乱疫情目前在全球范围内导致 130 万至 400 万例病例，并造成 2.1 万至 14.3 万人死亡。通过适当的卫生和免疫措施可以预防霍乱；然而，在印度等许多发展中国家，霍乱疾病是地方性的。印度的监测系统未能充分捕捉到实际病例数量。因此，在印度和其他发展中国家，正确利用有限的公共卫生资源，更有效地为脆弱社区提供服务是非常重要的。在这项研究中，我们分析了从 1996 年到 2015 年，研究如何理解印度的霍乱传播和蔓延。此外，我们还分析了更敏感的监测系统如何通过提高暴发准备水平来促进霍乱的消除。
