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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,...
May 15, 2024 · The first six pandemics. Cholera became a disease of global importance in 1817. In that year a particularly lethal outbreak occurred in Jessore, India, midway between Calcutta (Kolkata) and Dhaka (now in Bangladesh), and then spread throughout most of India, Burma (Myanmar), and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
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.
Mar 1, 2021 · Cholera, a diarrheal disease caused by bacteria, has shaped human history for centuries, while COVID‐19 is a newly emergent respiratory disease caused by the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus. Despite their apparent differences, there are some surprising similarities between the two diseases.
- 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.
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.
The third cholera pandemic (1846–1860) was the third major outbreak of cholera originating in India in the 19th century that reached far beyond its borders, which researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believe may have started as early as 1837 and lasted until 1863.
May 15, 2024 · Cholera is an acute infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and characterized by extreme diarrhea with rapid and severe depletion of body fluids and salts. In the past two centuries, seven pandemics of cholera have carried the disease to countries around the world.
