![21 July 2016: Cholera – situation in the Americas – Epidemiological Update 21 July 2016: Cholera – situation in the Americas – Epidemiological Update](/hq/images/stories/AD/HSD/IR/Cholera/cholera-brochure.jpg)
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.
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