Abstract Background and Aim Cholera is a life‐threatening infectious disease that is still one
of the most common acute watery diarrheal diseases in the world today. Acute diarrhea and …

Tropical variability and extremes contribute to significant societal and public health impacts
in the northwestern coast of South America. In this chapter, the complexity of …

In the 1990s Peru experienced the first cholera epidemic after almost a century. The source
of emergence was initially attributed to a cargo ship, but later there was evidence of an El …

In the northern coastal border region of Ecuador, new highways have begun to increase
socio-economic development in remote Afro-descendent communities. Greater connectivity …