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Cholera
What is Cholera?
• Cholera is a serious bacterial disease that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae.
• When the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae is in the mucosal epithelium, it produces cholera toxin,
which causes massive diarrhea.
How is Cholera caused?
• Cholera is primarily caused by contaminated water supplies, but it can also be caused by
consuming raw shellfish, uncooked fruits and vegetables, and other foods that can harbor the
Vibrio Cholerae Bacterium.
• Vibrio Cholerae is found naturally in costal waters, and they attach to crustaceans called
copepods, and spread to other places.
• The bacteria can get into a human, who may not get sick from it, but they can pass it off to
another person through their stool, through a method called the fecal-oral route, which occurs
when the stool contaminates food and water supplies.
The Symptoms
• Severe, watery diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps, dehydration, and hypovolemic
shock are all symptoms of Cholera.
Risk-Factors
• People with malnutrition and a compromised immune system are most vulnerable to this
disease.
Treatment
• Treatment should be gotten immediately, because extreme dehydration can become serious and
lead to death very fast.
• Oral Dehydration Salts, or ORS, is a re-hydration solution issued by the World Health
Organization to re-hydrate patients of Cholera.
• Also an antibiotic, called azithromycin can cut the symptoms of Cholera in half.
Prevention
• Cholera can be prevented by:

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Cholera What is Cholera? • Cholera is a serious bacterial disease that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae. • When the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae is in the mucosal epithelium, it produces cholera toxin, which causes massive diarrhea. How is Cholera caused? • Cholera is primarily caused by contaminated water supplies, but it can also be caused by consuming raw shellfish, uncooked fruits and vegetables, and other foods that can harbor the Vibrio Cholerae Bacterium. • Vibrio Cholerae is found naturally in costal waters, and they attach to crustaceans called copepods, and sp ...
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