There are an estimated 3-5 million cholera cases and 100 000-20000 deaths due to cholera every year.
Both cholera and bacillary dysentery affect the intestines.
Cholera affects the Digestive system.
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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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Over 100,000 Haitians have become sick by the cholera in Haiti.
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around 12 million people have it world wide
Every year about 60,000 to 120,000 people die of cholera. For one such death, there are 99 cases of cholera in the society. That makes tremendous mortality and morbidity for such a preventable disease.
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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.
It is not actually known exactly how many people have died from cholera, which is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food, but it is safe to say that the most died before water treatment plants and other facilities were created. Many died from cholera while on the open prairie in the Wild West. In the Victorian era, about 7000 people died from cholera.