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How El Niño forecasts can help prevent cholera deaths in Africa

  • Written by Justin Lessler, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
imagePit latrine in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Access to clean water and sanitation are key to preventing cholera epidemics.D. Schafer, SuSanA/Flickr, CC BY

Since it first emerged from the Ganges River delta 200 years ago, cholera has killed tens of millions of people around the world. It causes acute diarrhea that can kill quickly without proper...

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