Guidelines for Cholera Control (WHO - OMS, 1993, 68 p.): Acknowledgements

Guidelines for Cholera Control (WHO - OMS, 1993, 68 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		1. Introduction
		2. About cholera
		3. Preventing cholera
		4. Being prepared for a cholera epidemic
		5. Early responses to the threat of an outbreak
		6. Management of the patient with cholera
		7. Preventing the spread of an outbreak
		8. Epidemiology: investigating an outbreak
		9. The role of the laboratory
		10. After an outbreak
		Additional information on cholera control
		Annexes
		Selected WHO publications of related interest

Acknowledgements

The important contributions of WHO's Community Water Supply and Sanitation unit to this publication are gratefully acknowledged, as are those of the other members of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control and the Geneva office of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

The laboratory methods described in Annex 5 are based on the Manual for laboratory investigations of acute enteric infections.¹Dr John Albert of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dr Dhiman Barua formerly of the Programme for Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Dr Bradford Kay of Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA, and Dr Kaye Wachsmuth of the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, USA assisted in preparing the guidelines.

¹Manual for laboratory investigations of acute enteric infections. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1987 (unpublished WHO document CDD/83.3 Rev. 1, available on request from the Programme for Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland).

WHO also appreciates the contributions of Dr Paul A. Blake, Dr Mitchell Cohen, Dr Roger I. Glass, Dr Allen Ries, Dr Robert Tauxe, Dr Duc Vugia, and Dr Todd Weber of the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, Dr Bruce Dick of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, Switzerland, Dr Ann Dawson and Dr Roger Skinner of the Department of Health, London, England, Dr Sandy Cairncross of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England, Dr Jamie Bartram of the Robens Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford, England, Professor John Pickford of Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, England, Dr John Kvenberg of the United States Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC, USA, and Dr Eugene Rice of the United States Environmental Protection Administration, Washington, DC, USA, whose suggestions helped to make this a more practical publication.