How long does it take to get the symptoms of cholera?
Since Cholera is a disease that can cause severe dehydration, this can create issue with the kidney. In severe cases kidney failure occurs and sometimes this is not reversible. This is the only known long term effect of Cholera.
Is Vibrio cholerae helpful or harmful and why?
Cholera is harmful.
"Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that causes a large amount of watery diarrhea."
Potentially anywhere, you only need to have a dirty water (or food) supply that has the bacterium of cholera. Countries that you are likely to catch it in are probably third world countries with bad hygiene that could cause sewage to leak into water supplies.
Is cholera a virus or a bacteria disease?
Cholera is a diarrheal illness caused by a toxin produced by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The toxin causes massive amounts of water to be excreted into the lumen of the bowel, thus producing copious watery diarrhea. The danger is not from the diarrhea, but instead from the dehydration it produces. Children and the elderly are especially at risk.
How did dr john snow stop the disease cholera?
Name of Dr. John snow is permanently associated with the cholera. He was a physician in London. 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.
What is cholera and how do you get it?
The vector (the way the illness is spread) is mainly through contaminated water. There are most likely other ways you can catch the bacteria, but contaminated water is where the index case starts.
What does the disease cholera infect?
Cholera is a disease that occurs through drinking or eating food or liquids contaminated with Vibrio cholerae . It affects animals and humans. Famous people such as Alexander Dumas(French author), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky(Russian composer) and Adam Mickiewicz(Polish author) died of this disease although historians argue that Tchaikovsky infected himself purposely.
Is cystic fibrosis an infectious disease?
Good Question. The answer is cystic fibrosis is not contagious, however, people with cystic fibrosis tend to carry bacterial infections that can cause serious issues to other people with CF, so infection control procedures should be used when two or more cystics are around each other. General population folks need not fear of getting cystic fibrosis from others - it's a hereditary disease.
What is cholera and 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 is the name of the organism that causes Cholera?
Well you would die if you caught cholera
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How does cholera affect the human body?
The male Reproductive System (penis)
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dude it has to do with the small entestine and causes death from dehydration
so id say it'd be like the digestive system ?
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.
It is most commonly found in poor parts of the world as it is a water-borne disease mainly so obviously the hygiene in these countries will not be top quality. It also occurs in places with lots of crowding as it can easily spread this way. So main countries it occurs in are India, Latin America etc.
How many people died of cholera in 1832?
The total number of people who died in the 1854 London cholera epidemic is 616. See related link for an excerpt from a book on the subject:
This site also contains links to some really cool period maps, as well as to a firsthand account of the epidemic written by Dr. John Snow, the doctor who discovered the cause of the outbreak and treated many people affected by it.
Cholera was transmitted by a sort of water fountain that children, and adults drank from and transmitted to others. ---- Cholera is a food- or water-borne infection transmitted by the fecal-oral route. It is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. This is a flagellated, very motile bacterium that has an exotoxin that causes massive amounts of water to be excreted into the lumen of the bowel, causing large volumes of watery diarrhea. This can cause rapid dehydration and death, if not treated appropriately.
What are the benefits of getting vaccinated against cholera?
You can almost eradicate the diseases like cholera. Developed countries has done the same by the way of good sanitation and hygiene, since hundreds of years. Developing countries could not do the same. It looks that they will keep developing for next hundreds of years.
Vibrio cholerae what does it need to thrive?
Giraffes smell like pink bouncy balls so therefore it will probably be 77 dvds found on the bottom of the smoothie. Also there could be the possible outcome of the hungry tree speaker that couldnt help but sniff a leg cherry blossom. If you forgot to carry the crying 9 then your gonna end up as a goats pancakes.
How does John Snow make his discovery?
John Snow (1813-1858) mapped cholera affected houses in Broad Street, London, and the water pump they got their water from. By doing this, he saw a link between the cholera houses and one certain pump in that area establishing the link between water and the spread of cholera.
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How long are you protected from the cholera vaccine?
There's not a vaccine for cholera. People ususally just let it run it's course, the only way you die from this bacterial infection is from dehydration-you loose like 5 gallons of water a day from diarrhea. You can take antibiotics, but I hear it doesn't help that much.-Jess
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