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Deaths. Unknown; 100,000 in Russia; 100,000 in France; 6,536 in London. The second cholera pandemic (1826–1837), also known as the Asiatic cholera pandemic, was a cholera pandemic that reached from India across Western Asia to Europe, Great Britain, and the Americas, as well as east to China and Japan. [1]
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Dec 16, 2022 · In 2021, 23 countries reported cholera outbreaks, mainly in the WHO Regions of Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. This trend has continued into 2022 with over 29 countries (Figure 1) reporting cholera cases or outbreaks. As of 30 November 2022, 16 of these have been reporting protracted outbreaks.
Since mid-2021, the world is facing an acute upsurge of the 7 th cholera pandemic characterized by the number, size and concurrence of multiple outbreaks, the spread to areas free of cholera for decades and alarming high mortality rates.
- Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics Overview. Asiatic cholera was the most dreaded disease of the nineteenth century. While its demographic impact could not compare to that of the bubonic plague, it nonetheless held a tremendous purchase on the European social imagination.
Cholera; Other names: Asiatic cholera, epidemic cholera: A person with severe dehydration due to cholera, causing sunken eyes and wrinkled hands and skin. Specialty: Infectious disease: Symptoms: Large amounts of watery diarrhea, vomiting, muscle cramps: Complications: Dehydration, electrolyte imbalance: Usual onset: 2 hours to 5 days after ...
- 28,800 (2015)
The first cholera pandemic (1817–1824), also known as the first Asiatic cholera pandemic or Asiatic cholera, began near the city of Calcutta and spread throughout South Asia and Southeast Asia to the Middle East, Eastern Africa and the Mediterranean coast.
Dec 11, 2023 · 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. Vibrio cholerae strains. There are many serogroups of V. cholerae, but only two – O1 and O139 – cause outbreaks.
