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Sep 12, 2017 · The first cholera pandemic emerged out of the Ganges Delta with an outbreak in Jessore, India, in 1817, stemming from contaminated rice. The disease quickly spread throughout most of India,...
Dec 11, 2023 · History. During the 19th century, cholera spread across the world from its original reservoir in the Ganges delta in India. Six subsequent pandemics killed millions of people across all continents. The current (seventh) pandemic started in South Asia in 1961, reached Africa in 1971 and the Americas in 1991. Cholera is now endemic in many countries.
Seven cholera pandemics have occurred in the past 200 years, with the first pandemic originating in India in 1817. 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.
It is thought to have erupted in 1852 in India; from there it spread rapidly through Persia (Iran) to Europe, the United States, and then the rest of the world. Africa was severely affected, with the disease spreading from its eastern coast into Ethiopia and Uganda.
Mar 1, 2021 · While the first written records of the disease in South Asia date back to the Hindi Vedas from 500 BC, the history of cholera suggests the rest of the world did not know it before 1817. However, 1817 is the year where the first of at least seven different O1 pandemics spread from the Bay of Bengal ( 6 ).
- Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen, Stephen Lawrence Grant, Mads Linnet Perner, Zenat Zebin Hossain, Zenat Zeb...
- 10.1111/apm.13102
- 2021
- APMIS. 2021 Jul; 129(7): 421-430.
Jan 15, 2021 · Cholera was endemic in Asia until 1817, when a first pandemic spread from India to several other regions of the world (Table 1) (Faruque et al., 1998). This pandemic emerged during a period of increasing globalization resulting from technological progress in transportation.
In the last two hundred years, there have been seven global cholera pandemics (in 1817-1824, 1829-1837, 1846-1860, 1863-1875, 1881-1896, 1899-1923, and 1961-1975) and cholera remains a threat in much of the world.
