G. Balakrish Nair • Yoshifumi Takeda
Editors

2014

As we place our thoughts together to write the Preface of this book on ‘‘Cholera Outbreaks,’’ we are constantly reminded through all forms of media of the impending outbreak of cholera in Sudan. The country is in the midst of armed conflict resulting in the formation of temporary camps of thousands of displaced people living in poor sanitary conditions and overcrowding; the perfect recipe to initiate an outbreak of cholera. The World Health Organization has dipped into the newly launched stockpile of cholera vaccine and is creating history of sorts in attempting to preempt the outbreak by vaccinating people in these camps using the WHO prequalified bivalent oral cholera vaccine.