Travelers Returning to the United States with Cholera – Information and CDC Guidance for Healthcare Providers: COCA Now: December 5, 2022

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity.
• Description:
  U.S. clinicians should be prepared to treat cases of cholera in returning travelers.
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified an unprecedented global increase of cholera infections, with large outbreaks currently occurring in Haiti, Malawi, and Syria. Currently, CDC considers 25 countries to have active cholera transmission.
  
  Thus far in 2022, 8 travelers with cholera have returned to the United States from Pakistan, Iraq, and Bangladesh. Although cholera in travelers is rare and sustained community transmission in the United States is unlikely, widespread cholera outbreaks in other countries highlight the need for clinicians in the United States to be prepared to treat travelers with cholera (JAMA 1994;272:1203), as they could arrive in the United States at any time.
  
  Clinicians evaluating patients with acute onset of watery diarrhea should obtain a travel history, consider cholera in patients returning from affected regions, obtain a stool specimen for testing, and begin prompt treatment. Without treatment, death can occur within hours.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cholera/diagnosis Cholera/epidemiology Cholera/therapy Disease Outbreaks/prevention & Control Travel
• Series:
  Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Now
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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