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Table 1 Summary of the cholera cases dataset.

From: Regional-scale climate-variability synchrony of cholera epidemics in West Africa

Country

Total number of cases (1975–2002)

Total number of reports

Number of reports interpolated (%)

Number of report lengths > 2 months (%)

Côte d'Ivoire

13,887

25

10 (40)

5 (20)

Benin

17,787

78

34 (43.6)

7 (9)

Ghana

55,261

135

64 (47.4)

20 (14.8)

Nigeria

106,272

79

33 (41.8)

16 (20.3)

Togo

9,970

42

25 (59.5)

6 (14.3)

  1. Data were extracted from the Weekly Epidemiological Records published by the World Health Organization for the time period 1975–2002.