Epidemiological Update, Cholera (21 July 2016)

Since epidemiological week (EW) 1 of 2016 until EW 27, a total of 22,556 cholera cases have been recorded from three countries in the Americas: Ecuador (1), Haiti (21,661), and the Dominican Republic (894). Haiti alone registered 96% of the total cases in 2016 in the Region of the Americas. Table 1 shows the number of reported cholera cases in the Americas during 2015 and table 2 shows the cholera cases reported in selected countries from 2010 to 2016.