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Public Health Ethics Advance Access published online on December 4, 2008
Public Health Ethics, doi:10.1093/phe/phn036
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. Available online at www.phe.oxfordjournals.org

Case Discussion Cholera and Nothing More

Delan Devakumar*

Infection and Population Health Department, University College London

* Corresponding author: Ealing PCT, 1 Armstrong Way, Southall. UB2 4SA. Tel.: 07894579082; Email: d.devakumar{at}nhs.net


  Abstract

This is a personal account highlighting some of the difficulties in dealing with a contagious epidemic in a resource poor setting. It shows a situation where you are limited in what you can do and asks what you should do when the interests of the population and of the individual conflict.


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