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3 days ago · Epidemic cholera is an acute, painful, and often fatal disease which ravaged nearly the entire world during several severe outbreaks over the course of the 19th century. It is a diarrheal disease which can cause death by dehydration to an untreated patient in a matter of hours and is extremely contagious in communities without adequate, modern ...
2 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 ...
4 days ago · When water or food contaminated with V. cholerae is consumed by humans, it colonizes the gastrointestinal tract and causes cholera. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cholera is an intestinal infection that causes diarrhea, vomiting, circulatory collapse and shock.
22 hours ago · Cholera, a bacterial disease transmitted through contaminated water and food, can cause severe diarrhea and dehydration. The World Health Organization estimates that there are as many as 4 million cases and 143,000 deaths globally each year.
2 days ago · Faeco-oral diseases can be caused by bacteria, viruses, protozoa and helminths. Transmission of the infectious agents that cause faeco-oral diseases can be by the direct route, when hands contaminated with faeces make contact with the mouth. Indirect transmission is via contaminated food, water, soil, utensils or flies.
2 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 ...
