Vibrio cholerae

States. The United States was able to escape this worry because of effective public health measures and other resources. However, in third world countries such as Haiti, a cholera outbreak is a frequent worry. Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, found in contaminated waters. Symptoms of cholera include diarrhea, dehydration, increased heart rate, muscle cramps, low blood pressure, and dry mouth, throat, nose and eyelids (WebMD 2014). In industrialized countries, the implementation of

The Cholera Epidemic In this paper, I am going to discuss the epidemic that was going on during the time in which my story was written. The Cholera epidemic was a very serious illness and was spreading very rampantly. I will discuss the signs and symptoms that are associated with the illness and what was the probable cause. I will also discuss a few changes that were made with public sanitation do to the outbreak of Cholera. During the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had

It is true that the earthquake exacerbated the water and sanitation problem in Haiti, but in reply to the statement of the sanitation issue of water contamination, cholera started because of feces that got into the Haitian's primary source of water. Being curious of how the water in Haiti became contaminated, I found this article from the New York time which stated that the United Nation accepts responsibility for the cholera outbreak that killed thousands of people in Haiti. It was reported that

Microbiology Case Study: Carmen The disease that is plaguing Carmen is caused by the microorganism Vibreo cholera. V. cholerae is a gram-negative, curved-shaped rod bacterium with a single flagellum. Naturally waterborne, V. cholerae is highly motile which likely enhances its high pathogenicity.1 In 1833, Robert Koch was the first to isolate V. cholerae and explain its transmission.2 V. cholerae is secretes the cholera toxin which invades the human intestinal tract and activates adenylate cyclase enzyme

In the TGM, Johnson includes scientific evidence and tangents to enrich the story of the cholera epidemic on London. Johnson tries to get a “bird’s eye view” of seeing how cholera spread through London. In that way Johnson tries to get the reader to not only see individual stories of people who contracted cholera but to produce information on how it came about, what it is, and give as much background and insight to get the reader to see information they usually wouldn’t. Johnson also uses these scientific

Last week, I read an article in the New York Times, called It’s a Slow Death’: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis. It talked about the recent cholera outbreak in Yemen, which killed almost 2,000 people in three weeks and infected over 500,000. The authors have presented three critical graphs in this article. The first one is a thematic map of cholera case density in Yemen. The map shows that western Yemen is the most heavily affected, several parts of which have reached an infection rate of 300

Khiana Hawkins Vibrio vulnificus found in the Hampton Roads area Issued 5 April, 2016 In the Hampton Roads area we have a special scientist that test our waters and they are with a company called Hampton Roads Sanitation District also known as HRSD. In recent years a flesh eating bacteria called Vibrio Vulnificus has been found in Hampton Roads area, specifically at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. It is very concerning because a lot of people that live in the Hampton Roads area enjoy swimming

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, 2015). As stated by Clemens, the bacteria Vibrio cholera that causes cholera disease can be transferred from person to another person by fecal oral route, contaminated water, poor sanitation and hygiene (Kim, Mogasale, Burgess and Wierzba, 2015). On the word of Carpenter, cholera is showed by easy

Dynamics of Vibrio cholerae O1 following a Single-Source Introduction to Haiti. MBio, 4(4). doi:10.1128/mbio.e00398-13 2 July 2013 2Bing images https://fineartamerica.com/featured/vibrio-cholerae-louisa-howard-and-charles-daghlian-and-photo-researchers.html 3 "Laboratory Methods for the Diagnosis of Vibrio cholerae" (PDF). Centre for Disease Control. Retrieved 29 October 2013. 4Colwell, R. R. (1970). Polyphasic Taxonomy of the Genus Vibrio: Numerical Taxonomy of Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Vibrio bacteria are Gram-negative with straight or curved rods. These bacteria are motile and have one polar flagellum that has a sheath around it. They occur in both marine and fresh water habitats. There are different factors to include when trying to grow this bacteria. In order for the different species of the Vibrio genus to grow, they need to be in salt or sea-water based medium for optimal growth and can grow in temperatures varying from 10C to 37C. Vibrio bacteria are facultative anaerobes