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the patient loses massive quantities of fluid and electrolytes, which is associated with abdominal muscle cramps, vomiting, fever, and watery diarrhea. The diarrhea can be so profuse that a person can lose 10 to 15 litres of fluid during the infection. Which may result in death.

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What microb is caused by cholera?

Cholera is caused by Vibrio cholerae.


Is cholera caused by a bacterium?

Cholera is not caused by any virus. Cholera is caused by baceteria. Name of that bacteria is vibrio cholerae.


Is cholera caused by a bacterium or a fungus?

Cholera is caused by bacteria. Name of the bacteria is vibrio cholerae.


Is cholera a host or a vector?

Cholera is neither host nor the vector. Cholera is a disease caused by vibrio cholerae bacteria.


How is the cholera transmitted?

Cholera is caused by the bacteria called as vibrio cholerae. These bacteria are excreted in very large number in loose motion of the cholera patient. These bacteria are transmitted through contaminated water and by flies, at times by hands to other people.


Does chlorine cause cholera?

Chlorine does not cause cholera. You may get cholera, by absence of that little chlorine in public water supply.


What is cholera how does it spread?

Cholera is a dreadful disease caused by unsanitary conditions found along rivers which pioneers stopped to camp at. It is caused by contaminated water. They do human waste on the rivers and they drank the water. They threw animal carcasses on the river which they drank. They threw food on the rivers which caused the water in river to turn into an contaminated water which they drank caused cholera. Sadly, the emigrants did not realize that they will get cholera from the contaminated water.


What are diseases caused by excess of water?

cholera.....jaundice


Which disease is caused by bacterial genus in milk?

Cholera


What organisms are affected your cholera?

Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.


What is the meaning for cholera in single word?

Cholera, sometimes known as Asiatic or epidemic cholera, is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.


3 What did the miasma model of disease propose as the cause for cholera?

It proposed that cholera was caused/spread by bad vapours in the air.