Cholera is caused by a comma-shaped bacterium, vibrio cholerae, which is ingested in contaminated water and food. The bacteria multiply enormously in the intestine, where epithelial cells allow fluid to leak into the intestine with intense diarrhea as a result. The word cholera comes from the Greek words meaning bile and flow and the disease has a 50 to 70% mortality rate during the 1800's. Today we now know that cholera can be simply and successfully treated by immediate replacement of the fluid and salts lost through diarrhea. Infected people can be treated with an oral re-hydration solution of sugar and salts mixed with water and drunk in large amounts. Today this same solution is used throughout the world to treat diarrhea. During an epidemic, 80-90% of diarrhea patients can be treated by oral re-hydration alone, but those who become severely dehydrated must be given intravenous fluids. .
The conventional wisdom was that cholera was spread from person to person, primarily from people arriving in port cities on ships. In the 1800s, doctors didn't really know what caused it or how to cure it. It became a controversial health issue because many people felt it divided the have's from the have"nots, since cholera mainly infected the poor. In Britain citizens thought it was a way for medical professionals to take bodies for anatomical dissection. It was only in the mid-1800s that the world's first epidemiological study, conducted by British physician John Snow, discovered that many victims had been drinking from the same well. It proved the connection to contaminated water supplies. .
The search for a cure was intense because the disease was terrifying. The first cholera outbreaks had been killing thousands and leaving untold others sick. V. cholerae, which hit the Western Hemisphere in the 1830s, disrupts the transport of sodium and potassium in cells, causing diarrhea so severe that a person can lose more than 50 percent of his or her body weight, and death can occur in a matter of hours.
There have been a total of eight Cholera pandemics. ... There were also several localized outbreaks of cholera in Europe. ... Cholera can be life threatening but it is easily prevented and treated. ... A person can get cholera from drinking water or eating food contaminated with the cholera bacterium. ... The cholera bacterium may also live in brackish rivers and coastal waters. ...
Cholera Cholera is an acute, diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. ... Transmission: A person may get cholera by drinking water or eating food contaminated with the cholera bacterium. ... The cholera bacterium may also live in the environment in brackish rivers and coastal waters. Shellfish eaten raw have been a source of cholera, and a few persons in the United States have contracted cholera after eating raw or undercooked shellfish from the Gulf of Mexico. ...
The Leaf Of Life In the beginning of "A Farewell To Arms" a scene of a nice, peaceful summer is presented. Questions such as what year?, what village?, what river?, and what mountain? are drawn from the first few sentences. Imagery is further displayed with words such as "blue", "clear", and "swift...
In his novel Love in the Time of Cholera, I feel that Gabriel Garcia Marquez has used magical realism quite successfully to analyse love at all ages in particular through the character of Florentino Ariza. ... So consumed is Florentino by his love affair, that he develops symptoms strongly resembling those of cholera. ...
In "Love in the Time of Cholera,"" Garcia Marquez uses a love story to criticize the social inequities existing in Latino America. ... Juvenal Urbino is a aristocratphysician who studies medicine in Europe and returnshome wanting to improve the sanitary conditions of the town in order to prevent another outbreak of cholera. ...
Even though, Cholera can be prevented very easily. ... Fewer than 1% of cholera patients die with rehydration. ... In some epidemics, cholera has lasted for more than twenty years. ... U.S. and public health authorities are working to improve surveillance for cholera, outbreaks, and design measures to prevent cholera. The Centers for Disease Control is investigating cholera. ...
Even though, Cholera can be prevented very easily. ... Less than 1% of cholera patients die with hydration. ... In some epidemics, cholera has lasted for more than twenty years. ... U.S. and public health authorities are working to improve surveillance for cholera, outbreaks, and design measures to prevent cholera. The Centers for Disease Control is investigating cholera. ...
Three such cases are recent outbreaks of cholera, the plague, and Lyme disease. In 1991, cholera was detected for the first time in one hundred years in Peru. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by bacteria. ... Treatment of cholera simply consists of giving most victims a solution of oral rehydration salts. ... Cholera reaches epidemic proportions most often in countries that are poverty stricken. ...
