cholera

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An acute infectious disease caused by bacteria, characterized by severe diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration, often fatal if untreated.

• The cholera outbreak spread rapidly through the contaminated water supply.
• Vaccines are available to help prevent cholera in high-risk areas.
• Poor sanitation can lead to cholera epidemics in crowded communities.
• Public health officials deployed rapid response teams to contain the cholera transmission through water purification and hygiene education campaigns.
• Historical records document how cholera pandemics in the nineteenth century devastated urban centers with inadequate sewage systems.
• Researchers have sequenced multiple strains of the bacterium responsible for cholera to understand its evolving antibiotic resistance patterns.

Eş anlamlılar: Asiatic cholera, epidemic cholera