Cholera

Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

The bacterium that causes Cholera is called Vibrio cholerae.

The chances are near zero, if you fallow the universal precautions of personal hygiene and sanitation.

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The diet is most important for someone with cholera. The infected person should avoid solid food and uncooked vegetables Liquid bland foods will be easily digested by the patient. Lemon, onions, vinegar, and mint should be included in the daily diet during an epidemic of cholera. Also, cholera can be controlled only by purification of water supply and proper disposal of excrement. If there is the slightest doubt about watercontamination, it must be boiled before use for drinking and cooking purposes. All foodstuffs must be kept covered, and vegetables and fruits washed with a solution of potassium permanganate before consumption. Those handling food should wash their hands well before starting to cook. If there are lots of people in your house, you may want to reduce the numbers, or isolate yourself, that way the disease won't spread - it will just be you who has it.

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http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/cholera.html

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About 1.5 - 2 micrometers long and about 500 nanometers (half a micrometer) wide.

Cholera was originally endemic to the Indian subcontinent, with the Ganges River likely serving as a contamination reservoir. The disease spread by trade routes (land and sea) to Russia, then to Western Europe, and from Europe to North America during the Irish immigration period. Cholera is no longer considered a pressing health threat in Europe and North America due to filtering and chlorination of water supplies, but still heavily affects populations in developing countries.

Yes. One insect spreads cholera. Name of that insect is housefly. Housefly sits on the stool of cholera patient and then on your food. It directly transfer the millions of bacteria to you. This way housefly transfer many other fecal oral diseases to you. You need to see the leg of housefly under light microscope.

2% in united states 50% in Africa 30% in India 22% in china

the industrial revolution had many killer diseases including cholera. they thought at the time that miasma (bad smells) caused this and that eating and drinking to much also caused it.

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.

Dr. John Snow prepared the dot map of the cholera patients. He could locate the origin of cholera on Broad street (now Broadwick street) of Soho district of London. Almost all the patients had consumed water from one particular pump. Some monks from the area were not affected by cholera. But then, they did not used the water for drinking. But instead they used to consume beer to quench the thirst. The theory was not accepted immediately. But then, you can not hide the truth for long. Just like that, you can not hide the sun with your hands.

Cholera is not a big problem in US. Cholera affects the US citizens very rarely. May be a case or two per year. US people take it very offensively to have any preventable health problem to their citizens.

Cholera spreads so fast because it usually spreads by contaminated water. So it affects many people in one stroke. Secondly each patient produce very large amount of bacteria culture in the form of loose motion. Thirdly the patients tend to run away in their incubation period, taking with them the disease at some distant place. This creates the distant and independent focus, making it difficult for the health system to manage the epidemics.

In cholera the patient gets vomiting fallowed by severe loose motion. The isotonic fluid from the extracellular compartment is grossly reduced making the patient grossly hypertensive. Ultimately he dies of the complications of hypovolemia.

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Cholera does not spread through air. But then cholera spread by housefly. You can call it spread by 'Air'.