{"title":"A short report on the acute diarrhoea outbreak that affected the Ambunti District of East Sepik Province in 2010.","authors":"Rodney Itaki","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In December 2010 there was a diarrhoea outbreak in Ambunti District, East Sepik Province that was presumed to be cholera. This short report describes the outbreak and outlines the preventive strategies that were implemented to contain the outbreak. Lessons learnt are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76302,"journal":{"name":"Papua and New Guinea medical journal","volume":"56 3-4","pages":"116-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Papua and New Guinea medical journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In December 2010 there was a diarrhoea outbreak in Ambunti District, East Sepik Province that was presumed to be cholera. This short report describes the outbreak and outlines the preventive strategies that were implemented to contain the outbreak. Lessons learnt are also discussed.