Cholera Outbreaks

Cholera Outbreaks
Author: G. Balakrish Nair
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-06-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3642554040

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The most feared attribute of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is its ability to cause outbreaks that spread like wildfire, completely overwhelming public health systems and causing widespread suffering and death. This volume starts with a description of the contrasting patterns of outbreaks caused by the classical and El Tor biotypes of V. cholerae. Subsequent chapters examine cholera outbreaks in detail, including possible sources of infection and molecular epidemiology on three different continents, the emergence of new clones through the bactericidal selection process of lytic cholera phages, the circulation and transmission of clones of the pathogen during outbreaks and novel approaches to modeling cholera outbreaks. A further contribution deals with the application of the genomic sciences to trace the spread of cholera epidemics and how this information can be used to control cholera outbreaks. The book closes with an analysis of the potential use of killed oral cholera vaccines to stop the spread of cholera outbreaks.

The Political Life of an Epidemic

The Political Life of an Epidemic
Author: Simukai Chigudu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108489109

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Reveals how the crisis of Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak of 2008-9 had profound implications for political institutions and citizenship.

Cholera

Cholera
Author: Diane Bailey
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1435894375

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Recounts the history and effects of cholera outbreaks, describes how the disease spreads, and offers information about treatments and threats in the modern world.

The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States

The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States
Author: Joseph K. Barnes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1134
Release: 1875
Genre: Cholera
ISBN:

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The fourth cholera pandemic of the 19th century began in the Ganges Delta of the Bengal region and traveled with Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. In its first year, the epidemic claimed 30,000 of 90,000 pilgrims. Cholera spread throughout the Middle East and was carried to Russia, Europe, Africa and North America, in each case spreading via travelers from port cities and along inland waterways. The pandemic reached Northern Africa in 1865 and spread to sub-Saharan Africa, killing 70,000 in Zanzibar in 186970. Cholera claimed 90,000 lives in Russia in 1866. The epidemic of cholera that spread with the Austro-Prussian War (1866) is estimated to have taken 165,000 lives in the Austrian Empire, including 30,000 each in Hungary and Belgium, and 20,000 in the Netherlands. In June 1866, a localized epidemic in the East End of London claimed 5,596 lives, just as the city was completing construction of its major sewage and water treatment systems; the East End section was not quite complete. It was also caused by the city's overcrowding in the East End, which helped the disease to spread more quickly in the area. Epidemiologist William Farr identified the East London Water Company as the source of the contamination. Farr made use of prior work by John Snow and others, pointing to contaminated drinking water as the likely cause of cholera in an 1854 outbreak. In the same year, the use of contaminated canal water in local water works caused a minor outbreak at Ystalyfera in South Wales. Workers associated with the company, and their families, were most affected, and 119 died. In 1867, Italy lost 113,000 to cholera, and 80,000 died of the disease in Algeria. Outbreaks in North America in the 1870s killed some 50,000 Americans as cholera spread from New Orleans via passengers along the Mississippi River and to ports on its tributaries.

Africa in the Time of Cholera

Africa in the Time of Cholera
Author: Myron Echenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2011-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139498967

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This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony that this once-terrible scourge, having receded from most of the globe, now kills thousands of Africans annually - Africa now accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's cases and deaths - and leaves many more with severe developmental impairment. Responsibility for the suffering caused is shared by Western lending and health institutions and by often venal and incompetent African leadership. If the threat of this old scourge is addressed with more urgency, great progress in the public health of Africans can be achieved.

Cholera

Cholera
Author: Mark L. Lewis
Publisher: Capstone Press
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2019-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1543572421

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Cholera is a deadly bacteria that lives in the soil and water. It infects millions of people every year. Read this book to learn more about the history of the infectious disease known as the blue death.

Cholera

Cholera
Author: Diane Yancey
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2013-04-12
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1420510908

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Researchers have estimated that there are up to 4 million cases and 143,000 deaths worldwide due to Cholera. Author Diane Yancey provides your readers with a fascinating study of this disease. Readers will learn about Cholera in early times, and how it is detected now. They will learn how it is treated and prevented, and hear personal stories from sufferers.

Cholera

Cholera
Author: Mark K. Lewis
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1496665392

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Cholera is a deadly bacteria that lives in the soil and water. It infects millions of people every year. Read this book to learn more about the history of the infectious disease known as the blue death.

Cholera

Cholera
Author: Stephanie True Peters
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761416340

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Describes the Cholera epidemic of 1831-1834.

Cholera: The Biography

Cholera: The Biography
Author: Christopher Hamlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 019954624X

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Cholera is a dangerous and frightening disease that can kill within hours. Chris Hamlin not only tells how the bacterial cause of cholera was discovered, but describes the experience of different countries, some of which continue to struggle with the disease today. Cholera is part of the Oxford series, Biographies of Diseases.