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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.
- What Is Cholera?
- Cholera Symptoms
- Origins of Cholera
- The First Cholera Pandemic
- Cholera Infects Europe and The Americas
- How Scientists Studied Cholera
- Cholera Today
- Sources
Cholera is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. The bacteria typically live in waters that are somewhat salty and warm, such as estuaries and waters along coastal areas. People contract V. choleraeafter drinking liquids or eating foods contaminated with the bacteria, such as raw or undercooked shellfish. There are hun...
About 80 percent of people who contract the bacteria don’t develop cholera symptoms and the infection resolves on its own. And of the people who do develop cholera, 20 percent come down with severe symptoms, which includes severe diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps. These symptoms can cause dehydration, septic shock and even death within a matter of...
It’s unclear when, exactly, cholera first affected people. Early texts from India (by Sushruta Samhita in the 5th century B.C.) and Greece (Hippocrates in the 4th century B.C. and Aretaeus of Cappadocia in the 1st century A.D.) describe isolated cases of cholera-like illnesses. One of the first detailed accounts of a cholera epidemic comes from Gas...
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, modern-day Myanmar, and modern-day Sri Lanka by traveling along trade routes established by Europeans. By 1820, cholera had spread to Thailand, Indonesia (killi...
The second cholera pandemic began around 1829. Like the one that came before it, the second pandemic is thought to have originated in India and spread along trade and military routes to Eastern and Central Asia and the Middle East. By autumn of 1830, cholera had made it to Moscow. The spread of the disease temporarily slowed during the winter, but ...
Between 1852 and 1923, the world would see four more cholera pandemics. The third pandemic, stretching 1852–1859, was the deadliest. It devastated Asia, Europe, North America and Africa, killing 23,000 people in Great Britain alone in 1854, the worst single year of cholera. In that year, British physician John Snow, who’s considered one of the fath...
Unlike previous pandemics, which all originated in India, the seventh and current cholera pandemic began in Indonesia in 1961. It spread across Asia and the Middle East, reaching Africa in 1971. In 1990, more than 90 percent of all cholera cases reported to WHO were from the African continent. In 1991, cholera appeared in Peru, returning to South A...
Cholera. World Health Organization. What Is Cholera? Everyday Health. Boucher et al. (2015). “The out-of-the-delta hypothesis: dense human populations in low-lying river deltas served as agents for the evolution of a deadly pathogen.” Frontiers in Microbiology. Cholera studies. 1. History of the Disease. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. N...
Sep 12, 2024 · 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. [1]
An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Indian or Spasmodic Cholera: With a Particular Description of the Symptoms Attending the Disease: Illustrated by a Map, Showing the Route and Progress of the Disease, from Jessore, Near the Ganges, in 1817, to Great Britain, in 1831.
May 31, 2024 · 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 sanitation, as most of the world was in 1817 when it first left India.
Global pandemic spread of cholera from its ancestral home in Bengal was first documented in 1817 ( 1 ), the beginning of what has been designated as the first pandemic. In the intervening 2 centuries, cholera has continued to ebb and flow from southern Asia to other parts of the known world, with 6 additional pandemics identified.
