Disease outbreaks: Support for a cholera vaccine stockpile

Nature  
Volume 487 Number 7405 pp5-134  5 July 2012
http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue.html

Correspondence
Disease outbreaks: Support for a cholera vaccine stockpile
Agnes Binagwaho, Thierry Nyatanyi, Cameron T. Nutt & Claire M. Wagner
doi:10.1038/487039c
Published online
04 July 2012

Extract
As researchers and policy-makers in Rwanda’s health sector, we congratulate Guinea and Haiti on integrating oral cholera vaccination into their regular control efforts during epidemics (see Nature http://doi.org/h2c; 2012). Rwanda has also learned valuable lessons about the costs of inaction from the world’s delayed response to cholera outbreaks in post-earthquake…