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    Cholera Cholera has re-emerged as a major infectious disease in the recent past with a global increase in its incidence. In 1994, cholera cases were notified from 94 countries-the highest ever number of countries in one year (WHO, 1995). Two disturbing aspects of global cholera picture in 1990s have been-dramatic and unexpected reappearance of epidemic cholera caused by V.cholerae 01 E1T or in Latin America after 100 years absence from the region and unexpected appearance in 1992 in South India of

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    Summary Of Cholera

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    Valerie Montague Reading Response 6 Aberth He begins by describing the identification of cholera by Koch and some of the epidemiology. Cholera is a gastrointestinal disease marked by excessive defecation and vomiting at alarming rates. This along with a toxin in the small intestines causes dehydration and wearing down of the GI tract. The first known pandemic of cholera began in 1817 and persisted in various parts of the world throughout the 19th century. The disease presents an interesting

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    What is Cholera?

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    Cholera is an infectious disease – caused by the bacterium vibrio cholera (figure 1) – that affects the small intestine and causes a large amount of watery diarrhea. The bacteria conserves its energy and nutrients to pass through the acid in the stomach and then once inside the small intestine, propels itself into the mucus where it flourishes. Often times the infections comes with no or mild systems, with severe symptoms being shown in 5% of infected persons. Symptoms can show within a matter of

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    Cholera Essay

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    Background: Cholera is a dehydrating illness that affects millions of people worldwide. Although cholera vaccines can provide some protection against illness, the protective efficacy conferred by current vaccines are not equivalent to natural infection of Vibrio cholerae (1,2). To combat cholera infection, the WHO has proposed a global initiative to reduce cholera deaths by 90 percent by 2030. In this call to action, the WHO designates the improvement and distribution of oral cholera vaccines as

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    Cholera Outbreak

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    In 1849 London experienced a major outbreak of cholera due to the polluted water, which claimed the lives of about 15,000 residents. William Farr believed that cholera traveled through the air instead of the water. Also he conducted many analysis of several variables in relation to the outbreak and their relationship to death from cholera. From these findings he developed detailed statistics from the environmental conditions that he observed from the local bodies of water. Working with William Farr’s

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    Essay on Cholera

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    Cholera The disease, cholera, is an infection of the intestines, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. As stated in Microbes and Infections of the Gut, the bacterium is “a Gram-negative, comma- shaped, highly motile organism with a single terminal flagellum” (105). Cholera is characterized by the most significant symptom that presents with the disease, diarrhea, and victims can lose up to twenty liters of body fluids in a day. Cholera can be a serious disease, due to the serious dehydration

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    Cholera In Haiti

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    contributed to Haiti’s situation. There is a lack of medical resources and treatment, so disease spreads quickly and impacts all areas of the country. Haiti’s cholera epidemic is one of the most devastating crises it is currently battling. To begin with, although cholera broke out only a few years ago, its impact has been widespread and debilitating. Cholera first broke out in Haiti a few months after the catastrophic earthquake in 2010 when United Nations troops from Nepal dumped their human waste into Haiti’s

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    Cholera is on the rise with an estimated 1.4 billion people at risk in endemic countries and an estimated 3 million to 5 million cases and 100,000-120,000 deaths per year worldwide. In many endemic countries, children under 5 account for more than half of the global incidence and deaths. Cholera has remained endemic in some Asian countries for centuries, has become endemic in an increasing number of African countries with epidemics throughout the years, and has recently returned to the Americas with

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    Amid the nineteenth century, a few pandemics of cholera began from India and spread to Western nations (Kanungo & Sur, 2012). According to Ali, Nelson, Lopez, and Sack, cholera is a genuine general wellbeing issue in creating nations. Cholera can bring about scourges in populations. It can be an epidemic in populations next to zero or regular invulnerability, frequently taking after normal catastrophes amid which the nature of water and sanitation can be traded off (Kim, Mogasale, Burgess and Wierzba

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    Cholera In The Ghost Map

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    thought-provoking observation of the bacterial disease cholera in his book The Ghost Map. He explores the means by which the deadly Vibrio Cholorae was able to devastate a developing section of London in only a week’s time at the start of September in 1854. Johnson offers details on the development of cities, which supplied the perfect environment for the bacterium to thrive and kill off thousands of people in weeks. Before the 1854 epidemic, Cholera was an unidentifiable mystery to the scientists and

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