A community-wide acute diarrheal disease outbreak associated with drinking contaminated water from shallow bore-wells in a tribal village, India, 2017

• Main Authors: Kiran Kumar Maramraj (Author), G. Subbalakshmi (Author), Mohammed Shahed Ali (Author), Tanzin Dikid (Author), Rajesh Yadav (Author), Samir V. Sodha (Author), Sudhir Kumar Jain (Author), Sujeet Kumar Singh (Author)
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• Published: BMC, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background In 2016, India reported 709 acute diarrheal disease (ADD) outbreaks (> 25% of all outbreaks). Tribal populations are at higher risk with 27% not having accessibility to safe drinking water and 75% households not having toilets. On June 26, 2017 Pedda-Gujjul-Thanda, a tribal vi...