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    Cholera (/ˈkɒlərə/) is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to...
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    A cholera vaccine is a vaccine that is effective at reducing the risk of contracting cholera. The recommended cholera vaccines are administered orally...
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    The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick...
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    cause of cholera was discovered by Robert Koch in 1884. Sambhu Nath De isolated the cholera toxin and demonstrated the toxin as the cause of cholera in 1959...
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    The seventh cholera pandemic is the seventh major outbreak of cholera beginning in 1961 and continuing to the present. Cholera has become endemic in many...
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    A cholera pit was a burial place used in a time of emergency when the disease was prevalent. Such mass graves were often unmarked and were placed in remote...
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    Cholera toxin (also known as choleragen and sometimes abbreviated to CTX, Ctx or CT) is an AB5 multimeric protein complex secreted by the bacterium Vibrio...
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    Vibrio (section Cholera)
    mortality among domestic marine life. A common sign of Vibrio infection is cholera. Cholera primarily presents with rapid water loss by watery diarrhea. Other...
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  • with single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). CTXφ infects some strains of Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera. It carries the genes for cholera toxin...
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  • Cholera Hospital was established on June 24, 1854, at Franklin Street in New York City. The institution was built to treat cholera patients who were denied...
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    The 2023–2024 Zambian cholera outbreak, part of the 2022–2024 Southern Africa cholera outbreak, is currently one of the most severe health crises in the...
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    theory) is an abandoned medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death—were caused by a miasma (μίασμα, Ancient...
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    The first major cholera outbreak in Luxembourg was in 1827, with further outbreaks in 1832, 1849, 1854 and 1865. Due to population growth, poverty and...
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  • The Ghost Map (category Works about cholera)
    Steven Berlin Johnson in which he describes the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London and centers on John Snow and Henry Whitehead. It was...
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    juices. In the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, cholera is a common cause of gastroenteritis. This infection is usually transmitted...
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  • El Tor (category Cholera)
    causative agent of cholera. Also known as V. cholerae biotype eltor, it has been the dominant strain in the seventh global cholera pandemic. It is distinguished...
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    influenza; vector-borne diseases such as malaria; water-borne diseases such as cholera; and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The term can also...
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  • only current treatment for cholera, intravenous therapy. Nalin led the trials that first demonstrated ORT works, both in cholera patients, and more significantly...
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    cholera vaccine that he tried out successfully in India. He is recognized as the first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera...
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  • Ghosts (American TV series) (category 2020s American single-camera sitcoms)
    Cody Crain as Cholera Victim Cody Nigel Downer as Cholera Victim Nigel Cat Lemieux as Cholera Victim Catherine Tyler Alvarez as Cholera Victim Ralph,...
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    drinking bottled water, and frequent hand washing. The oral cholera vaccine, while effective for cholera, is of questionable use for travelers' diarrhea. Preventive...
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  • Hay Amores (category Single chart usages for CIS)
    Shakira for the extended play (EP) and soundtrack Love in the Time of Cholera (2008). Shakira wrote the song for the Mike Newell-directed 2007 film adaptation...
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    decree. Rokhl Kafrissen wrote for the Tablet magazine: The cholera wedding didn’t have one single interpretation. For example, some rabbis felt it was efficacious...
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    as people have been forced to flee their homes. At least one case of cholera has been confirmed in Lebanon, emerging from the poor sanitation and water...
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  • genome sequencing of V. cholerae revealed that there was one single point source of the cholera outbreak in Haiti and it was similar to O1 strains circulating...
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    of immunity in a population. He also found that effect of a single injection of the cholera vaccine could be demonstrated on population with traceable...
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    fleas during the second plague pandemic. Academic debate continues, but no single alternative explanation for the plague's spread has achieved widespread...
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  • Single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing is a parallelized single molecule DNA sequencing method. Single-molecule real-time sequencing utilizes a zero-mode...
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    Robert Koch (category Cholera)
    causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology...
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    appelée vulgairement choléra des poules (On virulent diseases, and in particular on the disease commonly called chicken cholera)" and published it in...
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