Risk factors for contracting watery diarrhoea in Kadoma City Zimbabwe 2011: a case control study

摘要

BackgroundKadoma City experienced an increase in watery diarrhoea from 27 cases during week beginning 5^th September, to 107 cases during week beginning 26^th September 2011. The weekly diarrhoea cases crossed the threshold action line during week beginning 5^th September at the children’s clinic in Rimuka Township, and the remaining four clinics reported cases crossing threshold action lines between week beginning 12^th September and week beginning 26^th September. Eighty-two percent of the cases were children less than 5 years old. We conducted a case controlstudy to determine risk factorsfor contracting watery diarrhoea in children less than 5 years in Kadoma City.