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Sep 12, 2017 · It reached Latin America, including Mexico and Cuba, in 1833. The pandemic would die out and reemerge throughout numerous countries for nearly two decades until it subsided around 1851.
May 10, 2023 · 1832-1866: Cholera in three waves. The United States had three serious waves of cholera, an infection of the intestines, between 1832 and 1866. The pandemic began in India and...
The seventh cholera pandemic is officially a current pandemic and has been ongoing since 1961, according to a World Health Organization factsheet in March 2022. Additionally, there have been many documented major local cholera outbreaks, such as a 1991–1994 outbreak in South America and, more recently, the 2016–2021 Yemen cholera outbreak .
For much of the century, most European and American physicians believed cholera was a locally produced miasmatic disease—an illness brought about by direct exposure to the products of filth and decay. Climate and geographic location were also factors.
In 1991 cholera appeared unexpectedly and without explanation in Peru, on the western coast of South America, where it had been absent for 100 years. Cholera caused 3,000 deaths in Peru the first year, and it soon infected Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile and leaped northward to Central America and Mexico.
The seventh and most recent pandemic (of the “El Tor” strain of cholera) occurred primarily in southeast Asia, the Pacific and beginning in 1970 spread across Africa. More recently still, localized epidemics broke out in parts of South America in 1991-1994 and in Yemen since 2016.
Mar 1, 2021 · Cholera, a devastating diarrheal disease that caused several global pandemics in the last centuries, may share some similarities with the new COVID‐19. Cholera has affected many populations in history and still remains a significant burden in developing countries.
