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Sep 12, 2017 · One of the first detailed accounts of a cholera epidemic comes from Gaspar Correa—Portuguese historian and author of Legendary India—who described an outbreak in the spring of 1543 of a disease...
Japan suffered at least seven major outbreaks of cholera between 1858 and 1902. Between 100,000 and 200,000 people died of cholera in Tokyo in an outbreak in 1858–1860. Patients suffering from cholera in 1854. In 1854, an outbreak of cholera in Chicago took the lives of 5.5 percent of the population (about 3,500 people).
It is thought to have erupted in 1852 in India; from there it spread rapidly through Persia (Iran) to Europe, the United States, and then the rest of the world. Africa was severely affected, with the disease spreading from its eastern coast into Ethiopia and Uganda.
Dec 11, 2023 · History. During the 19th century, cholera spread across the world from its original reservoir in the Ganges delta in India. Six subsequent pandemics killed millions of people across all continents. 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.
Cholera. Cholera is a bacterial disease transmitted in water or food contaminated with Vibrio cholerae bacteria and has existed since at least 500 B.C. Symptoms typically include diarrhea and vomiting and can be mild or fatal. The earliest discovery of the bacterium was in 1854 by Italian Filippo Pacini. His work went mostly unnoticed.
Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century. First appearing in Europe and North America beginning in 1831–1832 and presumed to have come from India, epidemic cholera returned and traveled around the world many times through the end of the century, killing many thousands.
Mar 1, 2021 · While the first written records of the disease in South Asia date back to the Hindi Vedas from 500 BC, the history of cholera suggests the rest of the world did not know it before 1817. However, 1817 is the year where the first of at least seven different O1 pandemics spread from the Bay of Bengal ( 6 ).
