Introduction
deaths, death, diarrhea
CHOLERA, CHOLERA, EPIDEMIC CHOLERA
Both endemic and epidemic cholera remain major public health problems in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs), with an estimated death toll nearing 100,000 deaths annually The success of the stockpile, together with the persistently high burden of cholera globally, helped catalyze a major global initiative led by WHO in 2017 entitled “Ending Cholera: The Global Roadmap to 2030,” with the ambitious goal of dramatically reducing cholera cases and deaths in endemic settings We conducted a three-armed cluster-randomized, controlled trial (CRT) in 2011 in an urban slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh, to assess the protection of the inactivated OCV, ShancholEarlier work in slums of urban Bangladesh had demonstrated that natural variations in WASH behaviors and practices were strongly associated with the risk of pediatric diarrhea 