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And then on one day, August 28th of 1854, a young child, a five-month-old girl whose first name we don't know, we know her only as Baby Lewis, somehow contracted cholera, came down with cholera at 40 Broad Street.
You had these scenes of entire families dying over the course of 48 hours of cholera, alone in their one-room apartments, in their little flats.
Snow lived near there, heard about the outbreak, and in this amazing act of courage went directly into the belly of the beast because he thought an outbreak that concentrated could actually potentially end up convincing people that, in fact, the real menace of cholera was in the water supply and not in the air.
And that was the last time that London has seen a cholera outbreak since.
They drink the water they know is dirty, they get cholera, they get diarrhea, they get jaundice and they die.
Would adding cholera to the water be a good idea?
But also, by the way, the coffee is hot, the liquid is sterile; you're not likely to get cholera that way.
These are two shots of a red tide coming on shore here and a bacteria in the genus vibrio, which includes the genus that has cholera in it.
Rita Calwell very famously traced a very interesting story of cholera into human communities, brought there, not by a normal human vector, but by a marine vector, this copepod.
They're a tiny fraction of an inch long, and they can carry on their little legs some of the cholera bacteria that then leads to human disease.
That has sparked cholera epidemics in ports along the world and has led to increased concentration on trying to make sure shipping doesn't move these vectors of cholera around the world.
Furthermore, the elements conspire--in the form of an unusual drought and a human cholera epidemic--to leave the Wiley plantation house vulnerable to total destruction by the Elephant People (as the natives dub them) to close the story.
Well eventually they do, after the typhoid or cholera outbreak, of course, and much mayhem ensues.
Wayne eventually wins his meeting with the Shogun after bring a cholera epidemic, introduced by an American ship, under control.
Still, the film offers a heady lot for soap buffs: romantic drama, a bit of travelogue, interpretive dance, an elephant stampede, and a perfectly-timed outbreak of cholera!
(Some spoilers) Getting stuck on the Somoan Island of Pago Pago because of an outbreak of cholera makes life a bit tenuous for the boat passenger stranded there but for fun loving and partying Sadie Tompson, Joan Crawford, it's the best thing that could have happened to her.
He also makes the most purple faced cholera corpse on film (you have to be there to understand why).
As a medical doctor, I am acutely aware of how hunger, malnutrition, cholera, and other drought-related illnesses affect Africans, especially young children and nursing and expectant mothers.
The Red Crescent, which operates in areas of instability and violence that are often off limits to government health services, has helped reduce the severity of malnutrition and cholera emergencies.
Second, the sparsely staffed clinical teams were already facing measles and cholera epidemics as well.
Early Victorian reality – destitute street children, raging cholera epidemics, and mounds of uncollected “night soil” in the streets – was a highly “privatized” reality.
They commissioned the first epidemiological surveys to identify the source of cholera outbreaks – which could wipe out half the population of a neighborhood in a matter of weeks – and built new waterworks to stop the spread of the disease from the filthy Thames and tainted local pumps.
Hundreds of millions suffer from other neglected tropical diseases, including lymphatic filariasis and cholera.
Primitive approaches to managing sewage continue to spread infections such as schistosomiasis, trachoma, viral hepatitis, and cholera.
In Zimbabwe, after 4,300 people died in the 2008-2009 cholera pandemic, the AfDB and other donors supported the $43.6 million Urgent Water Supply and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project, which made emergency repairs to wastewater systems in urban areas, helping 2.5 million people.
The pain and suffering arising from last year’s earthquake was already enormous, and has since been compounded by Hurricane Tomas and an outbreak of cholera.
This is a function of a particularly virulent strain of cholera and underlying issues: a weak national health system, poor sanitary conditions, and a lack of clean water and other basic services.
Most immediately, there is an urgent need for more cholera treatment centers.
It is vital that the Haitian people in all communities are fully informed about how to deal with this disease, and that they understand that cholera is quickly cured when diagnosed and treated quickly.
Not surprisingly, the incidence of cholera is highest in Haiti’s slums and rural areas, where people are farthest from assistance.
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