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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    a single instance, as in the map made by Dr. Snow during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, where each dot represented one death due to cholera. Alternatively...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Hay Amores (category Single chart usages for CIS)
    Shakira for the extended play (EP) and soundtrack Love in the Time of Cholera (2008). The song was written by her for the Mike Newell-directed 2007 film...
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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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    and three professors, OmniVis produces cholera test and is working on COVID-19 tests. OmnniVis's rapid Cholera detection device can identify the presence...
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    Library, Open Collections Program: Contagion. Cholera's seven pandemics , cbc.ca, December 2, 2008. "Cholera - Pandemic, Waterborne, 19th Century | Britannica"...
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    candidates were all asked who thought victims of cholera deserved an apology. The UN's role in the Haiti cholera outbreak has been widely discussed and criticized...
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    Cefn Golau is a disused cholera cemetery situated on a narrow mountain ridge in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, and located between Rhymney and Tredegar...
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