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Most of the information that we collected on the cholera outbreak didn't come from testing water; it came from forms like this, which documented all the people we failed to help.
It's used for public health awareness campaigns such as the prevention of cholera.
As an extreme example: the disease cholera is caused by a bacterium that thrives in the ocean.
Ebola seems to be rearing its head with much too much frequency, and old diseases like cholera are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
You'll have heard of cholera, but we don't hear about diarrhea.
Kids were dying of diarrhea and cholera.
They had put in underground sewer pipes, and as a result, one of the great scourges of the late 19th century, waterborne diseases like cholera, began to disappear.
My responsibilities were largely related to tuberculosis, and then we got struck by an epidemic of cholera.
So it was the spread of tuberculosis and the spread of cholera that I was responsible for inhibiting.
This reminded me of clustering that we'd seen also in infectious epidemics, for example cholera.
Many stayed for months, even through the cholera epidemic.
Take a look: 748 Haitian graduates by 2012, when cholera struck, nearly half working in the public health sector but one quarter unemployed, and 110 had left Haiti altogether.
Handwashing with soap can have an impact on reducing flu, trachoma, SARS, and most recently in the case of cholera and Ebola outbreak, one of the key interventions is handwashing with soap.
But it's been happening for centuries: the Lifebuoy brand was launched in 1894 in Victorian England to actually combat cholera.
Last week, I was in Ghana with the minister of health, because if you don't know, there's a cholera outbreak in Ghana at the moment.
A hundred and eighteen years later, the solution is exactly the same: It's about ensuring that they have access to this bar of soap, and that they're using it, because that's the number one way to actually stop cholera from spreading.
Government is doing what they can, especially in terms of the pandemics and epidemics such as cholera, or Ebola at the moment, but with competing priorities.
We've seen that ThinkCycle has enabled NGOs in developing countries to put up problems to be solved by design students around the world, including something that's being used for tsunami relief right now: it's a mechanism for rehydrating cholera victims that's so simple to use it, illiterates can be trained to use it.
Like in Haiti, where we asked if a new hospital could help end the epidemic of cholera.
And that is the species of organism that is responsible for causing cholera.
In 1991, this cholera organism got into Lima, Peru, and within two months it had spread to the neighboring areas.
And to just give you a sense of how important this might be, if we look in 1995, we find that there's only one case of cholera, on average, reported from Chile every two years.
That's how much we have in America, cholera that's acquired endemically, and we don't think we've got a problem here.
They were reeling from the earthquake, they were reeling from cholera that was brought in by UN peacekeepers and still hasn't been eradicated.
Robert Koch supposedly once said, "One day, mankind will fight noise as relentlessly as cholera and the pest."
So this is the difference between tuberculosis and various kinds of plagues, and you can play detective with this stuff, because you can take a very specific kind of cholera that affected Haiti, and you can look at which country it came from, which region it came from, and probably which soldier took that from that African country to Haiti.
These stomachs of steel are essential to removing pathogens like cholera, anthrax, and rabies from the African ecosystem.
And cholera was really the great killer of this period.
So what ended up happening, actually, is they ended up increasing the outbreaks of cholera because, as we now know, cholera is actually in the water.
So this was the state of London in 1854, and in the middle of all this carnage and offensive conditions, and in the midst of all this scientific confusion about what was actually killing people, it was a very talented classic 19th century multi-disciplinarian named John Snow, who was a local doctor in Soho in London, who had been arguing for about four or five years that cholera was, in fact, a waterborne disease, and had basically convinced nobody of this.
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