Cholera often occurs in outbreaks or epidemics; seven pandemics (countrywide or worldwide epidemics) of cholera have been recorded between 1817 and 2003
There are an estimated 3-5 million cholera cases and 100 000-20000 deaths due to cholera every year.
Cholera is contracted from human feaces / bodily fluids in water and therefore washerwomen would then be exposed to this.
Over 100,000 Haitians have become sick by the cholera in Haiti.
In developing countries you have many asymptomatic carriers of cholera to spread the same. In developed countries, undercooked sea food is usually the source of cholera.
Cholera is not eradicated from the India. It is not possible to eradicate the cholera from India, in near future. Cholera is maintained in the community with many subclinical cases. Some of the people develop the severe form of cholera. With the majority people living in the villages and slums, they do not have access to good medical care. So many people die of dehydration, in isolated incidences.
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Love in the Time of Cholera has 348 pages.
Doctors at the time had many theories of how cholera spread, some thought that cholera was spread by filth and stagnant water whereas others thought that cholera was transmitted by touch or someone's clothes.
Cholera originated in India only in the basin of river of Ganges. It should have been there for thousands of years. Cholera killed eight million people in India, in an epidemic, which lasted from 1900 to 1920.
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