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After a 14-year hiatus, epidemic cholera swept through Burundi between January and May, 1992. The pattern of transmission was similar to that in 1978, when the seventh pandemic first reached this region. Communities affected were limited to those near Lake Tanganyika and the Rusizi River. The river connects Lake Tanganyika with Lake Kivu to the north in Zaire and Rwanda. To identify sources of...