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A brief guide to the causes, treatment and prevention of cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases.
Mortality estimates from Global Burden of Disease 2019 study2,3
1. https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/diarrhoeal-disease
2. https://www.healthdata.org/gbd/2019
3. https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4455997/
5. https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/222/10/1731/5755890