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Which scientist proposed a link between contaminated water and cholera?
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It was a doctor, John Snow, in London England, during the cholera outbreak in 1853.
Those that drank beer, were free of the plague. Isolating a contaminated water pump, proved the theory.
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How is cholera spread from one person to another?
If the infected person sneezes close to an un infected person Cholera is caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. A person gets cholera by drinking water or eating food infected with the bacterium. Once swallowed, it settles in the lining of the small bowel and releases a toxin (poison) that can cause the body to flush liquid into the small bowel, resulting in watery diarrhea. The bacterium that causes cholera is usually transmitted by water contaminated with human feces, but it can also be transmitted by ingesting contaminated food, especially raw or undercooked seafood and shellfish. Nost people infected with cholera have no symptoms, yet they carry the bacteria for few weeks, excreting them slowly into the water supply.
How did john snow help save lives?
Snow used epidemiological and statistical methods to identify the water pump in a district of London that was the source of cholera germs that had caused an outbreak of the disease. In doing this he helped to lead the way in applying similar approaches, even before the germ theory of disease had been developed. Please see the link.
What is Robert Koch most famous for?
He was a celebrated microbiologist and physician. He won the "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine" in 1905. He was a German scientist who developed Louis Pasteur's work on the germ theory. He found the germs for typhus and cholera and the cause of anthrax. He also developed a way of staining germs to make them recognizable. He was very methodical and systematic in the way he worked. He modernized the way that surgery, public health and cures could be faced. His work saved millions of lives as it is still used today.
Flood water can be contaminated with chemicals salt and unsafe levels of microorganisms Explain why this should be a concern to people in a community?
"Chemicals" becomes a hazard of acute poisoning, chronic carcinogenicity, or simply gastrointestinal distress. "Salt" becomes a problem with dehydration. The kidneys excrete fluid with a more-or-less constant salinity. If higher salinity is ingested, the body is drained of fluids to achieve the kidney's target. "Microorganisms" becomes a problem with disease. Cholera is a real issue in contaminated waters, as is e. coli. A community will suffer if its members are ill and cannot help one another.
Is cholera considered armed or dangerous?
Dangerous - yes. Armed - probably not
How can cholera can be prevented?
Cholera is a disease that is spread by contaminated water, particulary, by water that is contaminated by human sewage. If water is properly treated, it will not spread cholera and the disease will be prevented.
Does eating contaminated watermelon leads to cholera?
Watermelon can be contaminated by cholera bacteria on their surface. But then the watermelons are carried to market and by that time the bacteria get killed after drying of watermelons. But then the watermelons can be contaminated like other foods and cause you cholera.
How cholera is spread?
Cholera is spread through contaminated water and food. Cholera is unlikely to spread directly from one person to another.
how does cholera spread from human to human?
Cholera spread by fecal oral route. That means cholera is there in he feces of the cholera patient in millions. It is mostly transmitted by contaminated water. House fly also play important role in the spread of cholera. Flies sit on the feces of the cholera patient and then on your food, to transfer the bacteria to you.
Has the Peruvian cholera epidemic resulted in less than 10000 cases of cholera due to contaminated water?
Yes, the Peruvian cholera epidemic resulted in less than 10000 cases of cholera due to contaminated water.
How do you avoid cholera?
do not drink contaminated water
Who discovered the the cause of cholera?
John Snow discovered cholera in 1852, from contaminated water.
What is the mode of transmission of cholera?
Cholera is transmitted by fecal oral route. It is transmitted by contaminated water. It is also transmitted by contamination of food by flies and by contaminated hands.
How did cholera get spread?
Cholera is usually spread through water contaminated by faeces and unhygenic practices
What percentage of Earth's water is contaminated by Cholera?
2.5 percent
What is vector of diarrhea?
The vector is how the illness is spread. In cholera's case, the vector is contaminated water. That is how cholera is spread.
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.
