Vibrio cholerae

diseases and parasites live in the unsanitary and dirty water. Nine out of 10 individuals that get sick from dirty water are children, most common diseases are; rotavirus, Campylobacter jejuni, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Shigella spp. and Vibrio cholerae O1 (Ashbolt, 229–238), there are many more diseases that may be present in poor drinking water but these are the main diseases. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), rotavirus is a very contagious virus that causes…

theory. During the early 1800’s, the contagion and miasma theory were heavily debated upon medical circles regarding the cause of cholera. It wasn’t yet discovered until the 1880’s that the cause of cholera was by a bacterial microorganism, Vibrio cholerae. Nonetheless, contagion was originally thought to cause cholera, which relied on the direct transmission of the disease from one person to another. However, people became skeptical of this idea because the sufferers were not infecting…

Waterborne diseases such as polio, cholera, hepatitis, and dysentery are awful diseases and considerably debilitating and in some cases fatal. These diseases are caused by highly pathogenic waterborne bacteria such as Clostridium botulinum, Vibrio cholerae, Shigella dysenteriae, and Salmonella typhi. The World Health Organization attributes the mortality of water associated diseases to over 5 million people a year, with 1.5 million of those deaths being children1. More than half of these deaths…

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, such as sushi or even raw vegetables. CTX is a potent toxin that causes the deadly symptoms. You should not worry too much though, because you need to…

P. aeruginosa is a gram-negative non-sporulating bacillus that belongs to the phylum of Proteobacteria. It can adapt and thrive in different niches, ranging from water/soil to plant/animal tissues. Even though it is commonly found in the environment, it frequently causes infections in plants and animals (1). Luke (1862) was the first to report P. aeruginosa in infections as he observed rod-shaped particles in blue-green pus of some infections. This coloration is a hallmark of P.…

community. There are more than 20 medical schools and other institutions to train health care workers. Nonetheless, since July 2012, two outbreaks of cholera, a disease caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae, took place in Cuba. The Cuban government should be investigating on the water sources and provide methods of preventions (such as vaccinations) to its…

Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World” examines the disastrous Cholera epidemic that struck London-- one of the world’s first urbanized centers-- in the summer of 1854. It delineates the rapid movement of the Vibrio cholerae bacteria through an area lacking proper infrastructure to accommodate a population branching into the millions, and relays the importance of scientific understanding through Dr. John Snow and Reverend Henry Whitehead’s work to identify…

For the last several decades, there have been many discussions regarding global warming. As of now, it has become one of the biggest problems our world faces today. The PBS film “Global Warming; The Signs and the Science,” aims to call attention to the dangers society faces from climate change and suggests urgent actions that need to be taken immediately. The program tries to explain to its audience that global warming is very much in evidence by showing clips of science experts who explain the…

group 1 carcinogen by WHO. Non motile mutants lacking flagella are unable to establish persistent infection in animal models. Consists of 2-6 unipolar flagella.Dysfunction of flagellar biogenesis have a strong impact on motility and infection. Vibrio cholerae: gram negative aerobic or facultative anaerobic bacillus. Hallmark of the disease , cholera, is profuse secretary diarrhea. Biofilms are likely a form in which clinically relevant V.cholerae is taken up by humans, providing a concentrated…

In the field of global health, a consensus has been reached that we can no longer analyze public health issues through a purely biomedical lens, but must incorporate a wide range of other dimensions, such as political, economic, social, and environmental aspects. All these dimensions converge together to form particular places of health that influence disease exposure and transmission. King asserts that a political ecology framework applied to health provides insight into “how health is situated…