Cholera

well as information on the transmission of disease is necessary to help the people of Haiti’s southern peninsula. Haiti is no stranger to natural disaster, as it suffered a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010 and has been dealing with a Cholera outbreak ever since. In addition, Haiti has suffered from “high levels of vulnerability due to a three-year El-Niño-induced…

Epidemiology Cholera is a major cause of epidemic diarrhea throughout the developing world. There has been an ongoing global pandemic in Asia, Africa and Latin America for the last four decades. In 2011, a total of 58 countries reported a cumulative total of 589,854 cases including 7,816 deaths (case fatality rate of 1.3%) to the World Health Organization (WHO). There was an 85% increase in number of cholera cases as a result of the Haiti cholera…

Epidemics such as Black Death and Cholera have significantly changed the way public health operates in modern society. Many of the ideas developed during the black death years has been transformed and underwent multiple progressions in order to assist the greater good and potential of society. However, there have also been many similarities and old age ideologies that have stuck around and shaped our practices as well. Moreover, it is imperative that one knows the social, political, and cultural…

The Blue Death is a mortifying illness that in most cases leads to death within a few days. Cholera is a severe dehydrating disease caused by vibrio cholerae, that affects victims worldwide. It is nicknamed The Blue Death, due to the extreme loss of fluids the body turns bluish-gray color. It is an acute diarrheal disease that causes severe vomiting and diarrhea. The first pandemic occurred in South Asia, in 1817 and continued to spread throughout India, China, the Middle East and Japan. It…

country is dealing with a cholera epidemic. This is the first outbreak of cholera in Haiti in over one-hundred years. The year following the earthquake “there has been some 140,000 cases with the death toll well over 3,000” (Brown, 2011) and was reported to have exploded rapidly in late October, 2010. Even though measures are being taken to fight the cholera outbreak, cholera is a bacterial disease of poverty and is affecting rural areas differently than cities. Cholera is a bacterial…

A real disease because it was shown in the selection novel that cholera is an infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea. It was in the time of cholera where the characters encountered with each other. The cholera disease is real and it played a significant circumstance in being a disease in the time or age of the novel situation…

dedicated to solve the Cholera outbreak in London. The Cholera outbreak started in 1854 when a little girl was infected and her contents contaminated a water pump on Broad Street. Soon, London was filled with infected residents and no one could figure out what caused it. Thankfully, John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and other characters were able to understand and piece together how the Cholera outbreak started. John Snow played a big role in understanding what caused the Cholera outbreak in London.…

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson gives an in depth account of how a disease can cause immense repercussions in the evolution of society. This story takes place in London in 1854 when there was an enormous outbreak of the disease known as Cholera. Cholera is a disease that wreaks havoc on the body causing deathly dehydration via loss of bodily fluids. This is not just the story of an outbreak. However it discusses many higher order-thinking points in regards to humans and city life. The author…

you noticed white specks in your poop? Have you been extremely thirsty lately? What is rice water stool you might ask. Well, I am here to tell you that the answer to all of these questions is cholera. Now I am gonna tell you about Cholera and answer any questions that you may have. What causes cholera? Cholera is an infection found in the intestines. This is an infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae. You can get the bacterium by drinking contaminated water or by eating uncooked food,…

disease which consumes a person without any prior warning. In his book, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Marquez interrelates love, passion and cholera in his three main characters’ lives, in order to display the effects of a person’s personality…