World Health Organization, Weekly Epidemiological Record, Year 1981 ; Weekly Epidemiological Record, Year 1981, 56Th Year, Pages 97-104, (N.C.B. Section, 13): Weekly Epidemiological Record Releve Epidemiologique Hebdomadaire

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Title:	World Health Organization, Weekly Epidemiological Record, Year 1981 ; Weekly Epidemiological Record, Year 1981, 56Th Year, Pages 97-104, (N.C.B. Section, 13): Weekly Epidemiological Record Releve Epidemiologique Hebdomadaire
Author:	World Health Organization
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Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Despite annual variations in the number of countria reporting cholera and in the number of cases notified to WHO, the global cholera situation has not changed substantially during the last decade. Cholera is still present in many countries in an endemic form with periodic exacerbations. According to the provlsiond notifications received by WHO until 18 March 1981,there were a total of 36 815 cases in 1980,as compared with 56 813 in 1979, and the number of countries reporting cholera declined from 43 in 1979 to 32 in 1980 (Tables 1 and 2). No new countries became infected in 1980. In Africa, a total of 17 675 cases were reported by 14 countries, as compared with 21 075 cases reported by 18 countries in 1979. However, there was a considerable increase in some countries, notably Burundi, Kenya, Liberia and the Umted Republic of Tanzania. South Africa, which had remained free of the disease since 1974, was once again infected in its northeastern region. There was a more noticeable decline in the number of cases in Asia, where 19 108 cases were reported in 1980, as compared with 35 397 in 1979, and the number of countries reporting cholera dropped from 21 in 1979 to 15 in 1980. The absence of notifications from Bangladesh and, more importantly, the very considerable decrease that seems to have been observed in Indonesia (5 541 cases in 1980 compared with 18 817 in 1979) have undoubtedly contributed to this decline. On the other hand, a rather large increase in cases was reported by Thailand. The regression was most evident in the Eastern Mediterranean area, where the number of affected countries declined from seven in 1979 to two in 1980: Democratic Yemen and Iran. A recrudescence of cholera was noted in the Republic of Korea, which had not reported the disease since 1970.

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