Cholera
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
History & Symptoms
Treatment
Dietary Management | Medical Therapy
Epidemiology & Demographics
Primary Prevention
Risk Factors
Lab Tests
Pathophysiology
Historical perspective
Future or Investigational Therapies
False report of cholera
A persistent myth states that 90,000 people died in Chicago of cholera and typhoid fever in 1885. This story has no factual basis. In 1885 there was a torrential rainstorm that flushed the Chicago river and its attendant pollutants into Lake Michigan far enough that the city's water supply was contaminated. Fortunately, cholera was not present in the city and this is not known to have caused any deaths. It did, however, cause the city to become more serious about their sewage treatment.
Cholera morbus
The term cholera morbus was used in the 19th and early 20th century to describe both non-epidemic cholera and gastrointestinal diseases that mimicked cholera. The term is not in current use, but is found in many older references.[1]
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- Cholera - World Health Organization
- What is Cholera? - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Cholera information for travelers - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Steven Shapin, "Sick City: Maps and mortality in the time of cholera", The New Yorker May 2006. A review of Steven Johnson, “The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World”
- short paper contrasting official responses to cholera in Hamburg, Soho and New York.
- Kelley Lee and Richard Dogson, "Globalization and Cholera: implications for global governance." in Global Governance, 6:2 (Apr-June 2000)
- Nashville's cholera outbreak, Summer 1873