India: 8 cholera outbreaks in week 22 of 2024, the most since week 32 of 2016.

A record says how long it has been since the series was this high or this low. It puts a single value in the context of the whole published history.

For cholera outbreaks, neither a rise nor a fall is better in itself, so the observatory marks this movement as unusual rather than good or bad.

405 consecutive earlier weeks were lower. It extends a run of new highests that began earlier.

Full history of cholera outbreaks in India