Outbreak Control in Complex Emergencies
- First steps for managing an outbreak of acute diarrhoea (WHO)
- Cholera outbreak: assessing the outbreak response and improving preparedness (WHO)
- Acute diarrhoeal diseases in complex emergencies: critical steps
- Cholera in Disasters Situations
- Management of Dead Bodies After Disasters (A Field Manual for First Responders) (PAHO, ICRC)
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
- WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality, 2008
- Updated WHO/WEDC Technical Notes on WASH in Emergencies, 2013
- Sanitary Guidelines for Camps and Settlements, PAHO
- Excreta Disposal in Emergencies: A Field Manual, An Inter-Agency Publication, 2009 (via UNHCR)
- Guide for Monitoring and Controlling the Water Quality in Emergency and disaster Situations (in Spanish)
Case Management and Vaccination
- Recommendations for cholera clinical management, PAHO, 2010
- Infection control precautions in Cholera outbreaks, PAHO, 2010
- PAHO Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Recommendations on Cholera Vaccination, 2012
- Interagency diarrhoeal disease kits - information note
Laboratories
- Diagnosis of Vibrio cholerae(in Spanish)
- Search procedures for Vibrio cholerae in environmental samples (in Spanish)
- Procedures for identification of Vibrio cholerae in the microbiology laboratory (in Spanish)
- Manual of procedures for isolation, identification and characterization of Vibrio cholerae (in Spanish)
Food Safety
- Prevention of Foodborne Disease: The Five Keys to Safer Food (OMS)
- The Five Keys to Safer Food Poster (WHO)
- 5 Key Ways Project: Adapting the WHO Manual on Food Safety for Use in Guatemalan Elementary Schools (PAHO)
- Training manual for food handlers (In Spanish)
Communication Materials: Cholera
- Field Guide for Developing a Risk Communication Strategy
- Outbreak Communication Guidelines
- Considerations for oral cholera vaccine use during outbreak after earthquake in Haiti, 2010-2011. Emerg Infect Dis 2011, 17:2105-12