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* Water purification: All water used for drinking, washing, or cooking should be sterilized by either boiling, chlorination, ozone water treatment, ultraviolet light sterilization ( e. g. by solar water disinfection ), or antimicrobial filtration in any area where cholera may be present.

Chlorination and boiling are often the least expensive and most effective means of halting transmission.

Cloth filters or sari filtration, though very basic, have significantly reduced the occurrence of cholera when used in poor villages in Bangladesh that rely on untreated surface water.

Better antimicrobial filters, like those present in advanced individual water treatment hiking kits, are most effective.

Public health education and adherence to appropriate sanitation practices are of primary importance to help prevent and control transmission of cholera and other diseases.