encounter these situations it doesn’t mean you can always avoid viral diseases like cholera. Cholera is an infectious bacterial disease of the small intestine. Moreover‚ vibrio cholerae is the micro bacteria that causes cholera. An individual contracts this infection through the fecal-oral route. Scientist use to believe that if you couldn’t see it‚ it didn’t exist‚ however‚ we know that is no longer the case. Cholera is often considered as a water born diseases because it is most commonly acquired
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London’s Cholera Epidemic As explained in The Ghost Map by Steve Johnson‚ during the 1850’s in London‚ there was a devastating cholera epidemic. At the time no one really knew what cholera was. All anyone was able to do was panic and make up theories. What they did know about cholera was just what they witnessed. Citizens would see their loved ones have severe cases of almost clear diarrhea with white specks‚ referred to as rice stool‚ and then die within days or even hours. John Snow and
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general‚ members of the genus Vibrio are Gram-negative‚ motile and most of the members have a single polar flagellum‚ when grown in liquid medium (Kaysner & DePaola‚ 2004). Vibrio cholerae lives naturally in riverine and is the causative agent of cholera outbreaks and epidemics. Vibrio cholerae is comma-shaped. Initial isolates are slightly curved‚ whereas they can appear as straight rods upon laboratory culturing. Vibrio cholerae is a facultative anaerobe and can undergo respiratory and fermentative
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explaining cholera and how it spread consisted primarily of morbid poison entering the alimentary canal through means of contaminated water consumption. Snow believed this to be the basis of how cholera was contracted by individuals and believed improper sewage filtration was to blame as well as a means of spreading the disease from person to person. However‚ previous explanations of how cholera was contracted consisted of the theory of airborne infection. This theory proposed that cholera was contracted
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Karla Obasi HEA 341 Disease Research Report December 9‚ 2010 CHOLERA Disease Defined Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that causes a large amount of watery diarrhea. Cholera is a bacterial disease (caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae) usually spread through contaminated water. The bacteria‚ which are found in fecal-contaminated food and water and in raw or undercooked seafood‚ produce a toxin that affects the intestines causing diarrhea‚ vomiting‚ and severe fluid and electrolyte
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of the most common water-borne diseases‚ cholera (Sattenspiel). Discussion: Cholera is a water bourn disease (transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated water) caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It infects the intestine “causing acute intestinal illness with watery‚ profuse diarrhea and rapid dehydration‚ followed over half the time by death‚ sometimes within a few hours of the first symptoms‚” (Sattenspiel). “In 2004‚ 70% of all cholera cases identified were in the regions of Southeastern
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The Ghost Map Cholera is a disease that started to show up around the 19th century. It is thought that Cholera made its way out of Asia by the British who colonized there. Outbreaks of the illness where common among towns due to urbanization. These outbreaks were happening in cities because of the low hygiene and poor sewer management. The city of London was common victim of these outbreaks. In 1854‚ one particular outbreak occurred‚ in a wealthy neighborhood‚ that sparked the curiosity of a man
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with Epidemiologists of the Past John Snow and the Cholera Outbreak of the 1840s‚ Question 1-4 Cholera is a severe diarrhoeal disease that can kill within only a matter of hours if left untreated. During the 19th Century‚ there was an immense epidemic of Cholera that effected London‚ which killed thousands of people. Q1) Dr. John Snow was a British physician who found the reason as to why there was an outbreak of Cholera. He hypothesised that Cholera was a water-based disease‚ spread through contaminated
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Current Affairs: Haiti Cholera Outbreak Began in late October‚ the cholera outbreak triggered by improper sanitation have spread throughout Haiti as well as its capital‚ Port au Prince. At least 250 people have died and more than 3‚000 are sickened by the illness‚ which causes diarrhoea‚ acute fever‚ vomiting and severe dehydration. Currently‚ only those with the most severe cases of diarrhoea are being admitted because of resource shortage. The issue have become global as the international
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CHOLERA: SHAPING SOCIAL ATTITUDES AND ROLES OF SCIENCE IN GOVERNMENT CHOLERA: SHAPING SOCIAL ATTITUDES AND ROLES OF SCIENCE IN GOVERNMENT Introduction During much of the 1800’s and the 1900’s Cholera was a disease which had many similar characteristics of the plague that affected Western civilization. Cholera had a profound affect on not only social and cultural attitudes‚ but religious ideas‚ medical thought‚ and the role of science in the government. Many historians‚ scientists
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