Refugee settlements, sewage pollution, COVID-19 and the unfolding cholera outbreak in Lebanon

Author:

Kassem Issmat I12ORCID,Osman Marwan34,Jaafar Hadi5,El Omari Khaled67

Affiliation:

1. Center for Food Safety, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia , 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA 30223-1797 , USA

2. Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut , Beirut 1107 2020 , Lebanon

3. Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University , Ithaca, NY 14853 , USA

4. Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University , Ithaca, NY 14853 , USA

5. Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut , Beirut 1107 2020 , Lebanon

6. Quality Control Center Laboratories at the Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture of Tripoli & North Lebanon , Tripoli 1300 , Lebanon

7. Laboratoire Microbiologie Santé et Environnement (LMSE), Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University , Tripoli 1300 , Lebanon

Abstract

We have previously documented that the unsanitary conditions in the Syrian refugee settlements and pollution in Lebanon were suitable for the proliferation of infectious diseases. Here, we discuss how cholera is spreading rapidly across Lebanon, where a Syrian man from an informal settlement is thought to be the index case.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Medicine

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