Cholerae is a bacterium in the family of Vibrionaceae. This Gram-negative‚ facultative anaerobic‚ non-spore forming curved rod bacterium causes an acute diarrheal infection due to water or food ingested contaminated with bacterium Vibrio Cholerae. Cholera infects an estimated 3-5 million persons every year and causes about 100‚000-120‚000 deaths. There is a short incubation period of two hours to five days‚ which greatly enhances the potential of cholera’s dangerous outbreak pattern. About seventy-five
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fearful. The United States encountered cholera against all odds and many wanted answers as to why. In an attempt to safeguard America‚ the Metropolitan Health Board was erected‚ which concluded cholera could be prevented‚ not through prayer but through disinfection and quarantine as John Snow suggested. John Snow said boiling drinking water‚ disinfecting clothes and bedding were imperative measures to be taken to ward of cholera. Physicians had tried to cure cholera but determined that it had no cure;
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CHOLERA AND TYPHOID OUTBREAKS IN KENYA IN THE PAST 40 YEARS Cholera is an infection of the small intestine caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae.Its main symptoms are watery diarrhoea and vomiting.Vibrio cholerae are free-living organisms found in fresh and brackish water. Cholera infections are most commonly acquired from drinking water in which the Vibrio cholerae is found naturally or into which it has been introduced from the faeces of a symptomatic or asymptomatically infected person. Another
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came up with noteworthy insight on cholera. Cholera was said to be airborne during the mid 19th century and there were no successful treatments to help save the generous amount of people dying from dehydration. John Snow was born in Britain on March 15th‚ 1816 and became an apprentice to a surgeon at the age of fourteen years old (BBC‚ 2006). The 1831 cholera outbreak happened when Snow was eighteen years old this is what sparked Snow’s interest in cholera. In 1844 he graduated from the University
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sooner or later it will be at war but it will be called World War Three. Water borne illnesses are one of the leading causes in the world. Poverty stricken countries are already suffering from‚ this‚ especially with the deadliest three which are Cholera‚ E. coli‚ and Amebiasis. This essay will show you the reader how dangerous and terrifying foul water can and will be. This essay will also tell you how to end or prevent water borne illnesses. This will also show you where it is most common to find
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that urban intelligence could come to understand a massive health crisis of which most people refused to see the truth. Ultimately‚ the week of the Broad Street outbreak impacted the ways cities organized themselves. Solutions for problems such as cholera helped urbanization in advancing sanitation standards. The Great Stink of 1858 forced authorities to confront the problem of sewer lines emptying directly into the Thames River‚ and with the help of engineer Joseph Bazalgette‚ the city built a system
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The Painted Veil: the title of the book. • Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call life: though unreal shapes be pictured there‚ And it but mimic all we would believe With colours idly spread‚-- behind‚ lurk Fear And Hope‚ twin Destinies; who ever weave Their shadows‚ o’er the chasm‚ sightless and drear. I knew one who had lifted it -- he sought‚ For his lost heart was tender‚ things to love‚ But found them not‚ alas! nor was
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epidemiology for his work identifying the source of a cholera outbreak in 1854. John Snow was born into a labourer’s family on 15 March 1813 in York and at 14 was apprenticed to a surgeon. In 1836‚ he moved to London to start his formal medical education. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1838‚ graduated from the University of London in 1844 and was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians in 1850. At the time‚ it was assumed that cholera was airborne. However‚ Snow did not accept
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resources that is needed to provide those benefits ( Walley & Wright‚ P. 40). For example to questionnaire survey in the cholera prevention in Sierra Leone in Capital slums areas is; how you had about the cholera outbreak? Do you have any of your family or friends experiencing diarrhea signs for more than 24 hours period? How can you catch cholera? Do you know the cure for cholera? If from drinking water which water is safe to drink? And how soon can you take your love one to the health center or hospital
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U.N. WORRIES TROOPS CAUSED HAITI’S CHOLERA The latest disaster to hit Haiti‚ has been the cholera outbreak. The attached article addresses concerns from the United Nations‚ regarding mounting circumstantial evidences linking the outbreak to the U.N. Peacekeepers from Nepal. The Nepalese base housing 454 U.N. peace keepers located on a waterway called Boukan Kanni‚ which is a part of the Meile River. This river drains off into the Artibonite River. Haitians living in this rural area complained
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