The Lancet  
Jun 02, 2012  Volume 379  Number 9831  p777 – 2116
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Oral cholera vaccine and integrated cholera control in Haiti
Louise C Ivers, Paul E Farmer, William J Pape

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On April 14, 2012, some 18 months after the first cases of cholera were documented in Haiti, a group of Haitians were offered the first of two doses of oral cholera vaccine as part of the Haiti cholera vaccination project. The epidemic is not only the first in this region in nearly two decades, it is also the worst epidemic of the post-antibiotic, post-vaccine era.1 This vaccine rollout, linked to efforts to increase access to safe drinking water, seeks to vaccinate 100 000 people with a low-cost vaccine recently prequalified by WHO.