One of the enigmas related both to its ecology and to human disease was its apparent absence from human populations just prior to epidemics. Besides the fact that extensive clinical research repeatedly failed to identify human carrier state...
http://www.medicalecology.org/water/cholera/cholera.htm
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Cholera was originally endemic to the Indian subcontinent, with the Ganges River likely serving as a contamination reservoir. The disease spread by trade routes (land and sea) to Russia, then to Western Europe, and from Europe to North Amer...
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Cholera is an acute intestinal diarrheal disease caused by a bacterium -- Vibrio cholerae, which is found in water contaminated by sewage. Cholera occurs both sporadically and in large, abrupt epidemics.
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Microscopes, Social Statistics and Cholera ... Cholera has killed millions of people since it emerged out of the filthy water and living conditions of Calcutta India in the early 1800 s. Since then, there have been a total of eight cholera pandemics.
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Concern is also growing in South Africa that the cholera epidemic would start another chain of anti-foreigner violence such as was seen in May 2008.
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Research in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has shown that lakeside communities are often the source of cholera outbreaks. ... DRC health department officials plan to alter how they combat cholera following the research, which said that current efforts "failed to achieve long-term control".
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But perennial poverty, compounded by war, cholera and record floods, ... "My father always gets very irritable as we get close to the start of the school year," said 12-year-old Jocelyne in the Togolese capital of Lome. "He shouts and tells us off for the smallest thing, I think it's an expensive time for him."
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Cholera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cholera , sometimes known as Asiatic or epidemic cholera , is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae . Transmission to humans occ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera
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When a wave of Asiatic cholera first hit England in late 1831, it was thought to be spread by "miasma in the atmosphere." By the time of the Soho outbreak 23 years later, ... The last bottle of water -- which her niece had also drunk from -- had been fetched on 31 August, at the very start of the Soho epidemic.
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