Epidemiological Update: Cholera - 6 August 2018

In 2017, a total of 13,803 suspected cases of cholera were reported on the island of Hispaniola: 13,681 cases (including 159 deaths) in Haiti and 122 cases (including 4 deaths) in the Dominican Republic. Up to epidemiological week (EW) 29 of 2018, 2,883 cholera cases were reported on Hispaniola; 99% occurred in Haiti (2,843 cases, including 34 deaths).