Costs of illness due to cholera, costs of immunization and cost-effectiveness of an oral cholera mass vaccination campaign in Zanzibar.

• Main Authors: Christian Schaetti (Author), Mitchell G Weiss (Author), Said M Ali (Author), Claire-Lise Chaignat (Author), Ahmed M Khatib (Author), Rita Reyburn (Author), Radboud J Duintjer Tebbens (Author), Raymond Hutubessy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) as a supplementary tool to conventional prevention of cholera. Dukoral, a killed whole-cell two-dose OCV, was used in a mass vaccination campaign in 2009 in Zanzibar. Public and private costs of illness (COI) due...