cholera
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Cholera
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/mexican-govt-says-cholera-outbreak-is-under-control/28126/
The earthquake in Haiti in 2010 strained the already limited water sanitation systems
http://spring2013env3400haiti.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/49/
UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought cholera to Haiti
http://www.newser.com/story/143127/how-the-un-infected-haiti-with-cholera-and-failed-to-fix-it.html http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/2014/10/haiti-land-that-world-forgot-but.html
http://archives.focus.hms.harvard.edu/1996/Feb16_1996/On_the_Quad.html
Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae
Cholera is transmitted by eating or drinking contaminated substances
http://www.kelowna.com/2010/11/22/haiti-cholera-outbreak-claims-more-lives/
There are many strains of Vibrio cholerae,but only O1 and O139 cause cholera
http://www.microbiologyonline.org.uk/media/transfer/doc/factfile_cholera.pdf
Interestingly, Vibrio bacteria occur naturally in ocean water across the globe
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/10/11/31-in-florida-infected-by-bacteria-in-salt-water/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digestive_system_without_labels.svg
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Flagellum
The cholera bacteria moves through the digestive system and attaches to the inner cells of the small intestine
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/potm/2005_9/Page2.htm
By changing the chemical balance of your intestinal cells, cholera purges itself from your body
Cholera toxin stops the CFTR protein from regulating water and ion flow
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~genemed/cysticfibrosis/function.html
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In cholera, death is due to fluid and electrolyte loss via diarrhea and vomiting
http://www.who.int/topics/cholera/en/
Genome sequencing shows that the same strain of
Vibrio cholerae is present in Nepal and Haiti
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163938/figure/f1/
From a disease that had not killed anyone in Haiti for more than 100 years, now 1 in 15 Haitians dies
of cholera
http://bigcarnival.blogspot.com/2012/04/u.html
Rehydration therapy is the primary treatment for cholera
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/11/20121115101554961482.html
75% of cholera patients do not develop symptoms and only 10% need clinical
treatment
http://www.cdc.gov/cholera/illness.html
Cholera has swept the globe in a series of seven pandemics
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1214179
99% of cases occur in Africa and southern Asia and 50% of cases and
deaths are in children under 5
http://johnbirchall.pbworks.com/w/page/9221071/Sierra%20Leone%20-%20Child%20Health
There are 3-5 million cases and ~100,000 deaths per year
http://www.cdc.gov/cholera/illness.html
“Cholera is a good illustration of the vicious cycle of poverty and disease, in which the most vulnerable people are most likely to be victims….How much time will it take before we can provide basic sanitation to the 83% of Haitians without latrines?”~Dr. Charles Almazor, Zanmi Lasante Clinic
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