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4 days ago · Cholera as a Disease. Cholera is caused by the Vibrio cholera bacterium, which primarily affects the digestive tract. It is extremely acute, with a gestation period of one to two days, and upon onset, causes severe diarrhea and sometimes vomiting, both leading to dehydration that can cause death in a matter of hours.
1 day ago · Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by ingesting food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. During the 19th century, cholera spread across the world; six subsequent pandemics killed millions of people across all continents. The current (seventh) pandemic started in South Asia in 1961 and reached Africa in 1971.
9 hours ago · The Philippines was among the 30 countries that reported cholera or acute water disease cases in 2023, as per data from the World Health Organization (WHO). “Cholera has been surging globally since 2021,” the United Nations health agency said in a report released last March 20. In 2022, 473,000 cases of cholera were reported to WHO.
3 days ago · Cholera, caused by the Vibrio cholerae bacteria, spreads in areas without safe water and proper sanitation and can be fatal in hours if left untreated.Since 2023, 18 nations in the region have ...
2 days ago · They gained valuable skills in preventing and controlling cholera and other diarrheal diseases, including vital measures to be implemented in communities and CTCs. On the job mentorship to EHPs on infection prevention and control and community engagement activities in CTCs and communities in response to the cholera outbreak is still being provided.
5 days ago · As the world focuses on the pandemic, experts fear losing ground in the long fight against other infectious diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis and cholera that kill millions every year.
3 days ago · Doctors and scientists struggled to find its cause, and most believed that it was carried by “miasma,” or foul air. But in the 1850s, the English physician John Snow was the first to use disease mapping to prove that cholera is transmitted not through the air, but through water. His findings, published in Cholera and the Water Supply (1854 ...
