61. Cholera Asiatic cholera; Epidemic cholera; Rice water diarrhea; cholera gravis. ICD9-CM001.9 cholera, unspecified SEE ALSO. Oral rehydration Diarrhea, acute http://www.5mcc.com/Assets/SUMMARY/TP0200.html

Cholera DESCRIPTION: An acute infectious disease caused by Vibrio cholerae (El Tor type is responsible for current epidemic, the other type, classic, is found only in Bangladesh). (New serotype now in Bangladesh, India (0139). Important because of lack of efficacy of standard vaccine.) Characteristics include severe diarrhea with extreme fluid and electrolyte depletion, and vomiting, muscle cramps and prostration. Usual course: acute; chronic; relapsing. Clinical course is 3-5 days, and in the early stages a severely affected patient can lose one liter of fluid per hour Endemic areas: India; Southeast Asia; Africa; Middle East; Southern Europe; Oceania; South and Central America System(s) affected: Gastrointestinal Genetics: N/A Incidence/Prevalence in USA: 0.01 cases/100,000. The few cases in the U.S. have been in returning travelers or associated with food brought into the country illicitly. Predominant age: All ages Predominant sex: Male = Female CAUSES: Enterotoxin elaborated by gram-negative Vibrio cholera (O-group 1) Human host Contaminated food Contaminated water Contaminated shellfish Synonyms: Asiatic cholera Epidemic cholera Rice water diarrhea Cholera gravis ICD-9-CM: 001.9 Cholera, unspecified

62. Cholera Outbreak Kills 76 Kurdish Rebels CNN http://cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/05/17/turkey.cholera.ap/index.html

63. CNN.com - Vietnam Flood Toll Rises Amid Threats From Crocs And Cholera - October CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/weather/10/05/vietnam.floods.reut/index.html

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64. Geography Education: Grades 9-12 @ Nationalgeographic.com This lesson on cholera can be used in geography, world history, and other socialstudies Examine maps to draw conclusions about cholera deaths in London http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas912/912cholera.ht

SITE INDEX FIGHTING CHOLERA WITH MAPS Forward to next 9-12 lesson Handouts for this lesson Return to 9-12 Table of Contents page Preview of Main Ideas Connection With the Curriculum This lesson on cholera can be used in geography, world history, and other social studies classes. Teaching Level: Grades 6-12 Geography Standards 1. How to use maps and other tools and technologies 3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments 17. How to apply geography to interpret the past Geography Themes: Location, Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement Materials One copy of each handout for each student: Overhead projector and transparency of each map (Optional) Objectives Students are expected to Examine maps to draw conclusions about cholera deaths in London Understand how maps can provide useful information about an issue Understand how maps can be used to solve problems Opening the Lesson Developing the Lesson Concluding the Lesson Assessing Student Learning Extending the Lesson Discuss some questions that are important to medical geographers: Where are diseases found? How do diseases spread? Is there a pattern to the spread of disease? Are some diseases more common in some environments than in others? Are the locations of health-care facilities important? Are they related to patterns of disease? Have students research the spread of specific diseases, for example, AIDS, smallpox, malaria, or typhoid, then use medical atlases to research and plot the spread of diseases on blank outline maps.

65. Moved — Yellow Book: Diseases: Cholera | CDC Travelers' Health From the Centers for Disease Control. Includes recommendations on the use of the cholera vaccine. http://www.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/cholera.htm

Home About CDC Press Room Funding ... Contact Us Search: Travelers' Health Travelers' Health Home Yellow Book The page "Cholera" has been moved. Please click here to go to the current page. Date: June 21, 2005 Content Source: National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine Destinations Vaccinations Diseases Yellow Book ... References and Resources Travelers' Health Automated Information Line PHONE: 877-FYI-TRIP toll free (Information about our fax service, ordering the Yellow Book and International Certificates of Vaccination, and voice messages about disease outbreaks) CDC to Streamline Voice/Fax Services (Released September 7) VIA EMAIL: Contact Us Form FAX: Toll Free (Any info available by fax is also posted on this site.) Home Policies and Regulations e-Government FOIA ... and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A Tel: (404) 639-3311 / Public Inquiries: (404) 639-3534 / (800) 311-3435

66. Pan American Health Organization Cholera cholera Outbreak Assessing the Outbreak Response and Improving Preparedness Thisdocument offers a framework for the assessment of a cholera outbreak http://www.paho.org/english/hcp/hct/eer/cholera.htm

The Pan American Health Organization Promoting Health in the Americas Search Home Page Health Data Topics List Media Center Information Products PAHO Publishing Knowledge Resources Surveillance Prevention and Control PAHO Activities Other PAHO Materials ... General Info/Links What's New Cholera Outbreak: Assessing the Outbreak Response and Improving Preparedness This document offers a framework for the assessment of a cholera outbreak response, which will help to provide a comprehensive overview of outbreak response; pinpoint the main strengths and weaknesses of said response; improve preparedness for and response for future outbreaks; and provide accurate recommendations based on WHO official guidelines. This page offers a summary of the document and a link to the full text in PDF on the WHO site. cholera_outbreak.htm WHO ... more items. Surveillance Featured Surveillance Items Cholera Outbreak: Assessing the Outbreak Response and Improving Preparedness This document offers a framework for the assessment of a cholera outbreak response, which will help to provide a comprehensive overview of outbreak response; pinpoint the main strengths and weaknesses of said response; improve preparedness for and response for future outbreaks; and provide accurate recommendations based on WHO official guidelines. This page offers a summary of the document and a link to the full text in PDF on the WHO site. cholera_outbreak.htm

67. Cholera Detected In Second South African Province CNN http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/01/03/southafrica.cholera.ap/index.html

68. Cholera cholera was often spread in the home by someone who is infected with the bacteriapreparing For most of the 1800s, cholera was greatly misunderstood. http://www.posen-l.com/Cholera.htm

Cholera (or "Asiatic Cholera") is a severe bacterial infection of the gut, caused by Vibrio cholerae. A bloated, crampy feeling in the abdomen quickly gives way to huge quantities of very watery stool. The stool, which has little odor, is often referred to as "rice-water stool" because of its appearance (very watery, light colored and laced with tiny bits of mucus). Usually there is no fever and no blood in the stool, but there may be vomiting. Death is caused by the dehydration (loss of water from the body). As the disease progresses, victims will experience: Intense thirst; extreme weakness; sunken eyes; decreased urination, or concentrated urine; dry, wrinkled skin; quickened heart rate; lowered blood pressure; weakened pulse; sleepiness; unconsciousness; seizures; kidney failure. The symptoms may appear 1 to 7 days after eating food or drinking water contaminated with the bacteria, typically within 2 to 3 days. Contamination is from contact with the feces or vomitus of someone infected with cholera. Cholera was often spread in the home by someone who is infected with the bacteria preparing food for others or sharing a drinking cup. For most of the 1800s, cholera was greatly misunderstood. It was easy to see that those in proximity to infected persons were in danger. Whether it was caused by contact with the person, or with the environment was a matter of unprovable opinion. Many were of the opinion that certain areas had "poisonous vapors" and the cause was generally believed to be related to either poor sanitation, close quarters contaminated with the "bad air" of human civilization or both. It was generally thought to be the scourge of the depraved, poor masses, since it hit first and hardest in the poorest, most crowded places. In Europe and America, many felt that since it originated in non-Christian areas, that cleanliness and Godliness would protect. It wasn’t uncommon for some to blame it on a lack of morality. Originally, it was thought unable to survive the cold of winter.

69. CNN.com - WHO: Iraq Faces Cholera Crisis - May. 8, 2003 CNN http://cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/05/08/sprj.nilaw.cholera.update/index.html

The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com WHO: Iraq faces cholera crisis Children in a Basra market stand next to a stagnant stream of water. Story Tools SPECIAL REPORT Timeline: A new government Flash: Government structure Chart: Iraq's National Assembly Interactive: Iraq's population Coalition Casualties Special Report RELATED WHO: About Cholera Looters warned of radiation risk BASRA, Iraq Mounting piles of waste and sewage and contaminated water supplies have led to southern Iraq's first cases of cholera raising concerns of a potentially devastating outbreak. The World Health Organization has confirmed four people had contracted cholera in Basra, and the group says dozens more may have the potentially fatal illness. No deaths have been reported so far but health officials said they feared the problem is already reaching epidemic proportions. The lack of clean water, lack of security, and economic troubles are allowing it to spread rapidly, WHO spokesman Ian Simpson said Thursday. "Cholera has a fatality rate of more than 50 percent if it is not treated," he said. "This is probably the most serious health concern in Iraq right now."

70. Cholera cholera is the prototype toxigenic diarrhea, which is secretory in nature. Fluid loss in cholera originates in the small intestine with the colon being http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/MedRef/OnlineRef/FieldManuals/medman/Cholera.

CHOLERA Summary Signs and Symptoms: Incubation period 4 hours to 5 days; average 2-3 days. Asymptomatic to severe with sudden onset. Vomiting, headache, intestinal cramping with little or no fever followed rapidly by painless, voluminous diarrhea. Fluid losses may exceed 5 to 10 liters per day. Without treatment, death may result from severe dehydration, hypovolemia and shock. Treatment: Fluid and electrolyte replacement. Antibiotics (tetracycline, ciprofloxacin or erythromycin) may shorten the duration of diarrhea and, more importantly, reduce shedding of the organism. Prophylaxis: A licensed, killed vaccine is available but provides only about 50 percent protection that lasts for no more than 6 months. Vaccination schedule is at and 4 weeks, with booster doses every 6 months. Isolation and Decontamination: Standard Precautions for healthcare workers. Personal contact rarely causes infection; however, enteric precautions and careful hand-washing should be employed. Bactericidal solutions (hypochlorite) would provide adequate decontamination. OVERVIEW Vibrio cholerae HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE This agent has purportedly been investigated in the past as a biological weapon. Cholera does not easily spread from person-to-person. Therefore, to be an effective biological weapon, major drinking water supplies would need to be heavily contaminated. Recent naturally occurring cholera epidemics in South America have shown the devastating consequences of this disease. Cholera spread quickly in Peru and neighboring countries, despite all attempts to curb the epidemic at an early stage. Over 250,000 symptomatic cases have been reported in Peru alone, and the epidemic has spread to other countries. The rate of symptomatic to asymptomatic cases is 1:400, a factor mitigating against effective use of cholera as a BW agent.

71. CNN.com - Cholera Kills 34 In South Africa As Rains Worsen Outbreak - November 1 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/11/17/safrica.cholera.reut/index.html

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72. CHOLERA cholera is an acute bacterial enteric disease which is transmitted through theingestion of food or water which has been contaminated with human excreta. http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubhlth-str

Skip to Search Skip to Banner Navigation Skip to Main Navigation Skip to Content Search Sitemap A-Z Index Links Contact Us ... Factsheets CHOLERA Cholera is an acute bacterial enteric disease which is transmitted through the ingestion of food or water which has been contaminated with human excreta. This fact sheet covers: background; occurrence; vaccination requirements for travel; treatment; avoidance; quarantine measures. Background Cholera is an acute bacterial diarrhoeal disease that is transmitted through the ingestion of food or water contaminated with human faeces. The primary symptom of infection is the sudden onset of watery diarrhoea, with or without vomiting. If untreated, the fatality rate in severe cases can be as high as 50 per cent due to dehydration and kidney failure. Infection without symptoms, or with only mild diarrhoea, is common particularly in children. Occurrence Cholera has been reported from all continents. It is endemic in Asia, South America, central Europe, Africa, and is reported sporadically in Northern America and the Pacific. Australia is free of the disease except for the occasional case in an international traveller and very rarely, cases acquired from some eastern rivers. World-wide cholera appears to be increasing in both the number of cases and their distribution. In 1998, there were over 290,000 cases in 74 countries with 10,500 deaths reported to the World Health Organization (WHO).

73. Djibouti Camp Gets Aid To Fight Cholera CNN http://cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/09/30/djibouti.refugees.reut/index.html

74. Snow S Cholera Map The significance of Snow s famous cholera map (a piece of which is shown here)is that Snow on cholera being a reprint of two papers by John Snow, MD, http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/snow/snow.html

Snow's Cholera Map The significance of Snow's famous cholera map (a piece of which is shown here In 1992, as part of the development work for an NCGIA technical report, Rusty Dodson of NCGIA Santa Barbara, digitized details from Snow's map reproduced in: "Snow on Cholera: being a reprint of two papers by John Snow, M.D., together with a Biographical Memoir by B.W. Richardson, M.D. and an Introduction by Wade Hampton Frost, M.D.", London, Oxford University Press, 1936. The scale of the source map is approx. 1:2000. Coordinate units are meters. The data in these files consists of: the relevant 1854 London streets ("streets") the location of 578 deaths from cholera ("deaths") the position of 13 water pumps ("pumps") Each coordinate point in the file "deaths" specifies the address of a person who died from cholera. When many points are associated with a single street address, they are "stacked" in a line away from the street so that they are more easily visualized. This is how they are displayed on John Snow's original map. The dates of the deaths are not recorded. The data files were created for a student exercise included in NCGIA Technical Report 93-5: Teaching Introductory Geographical Data Analysis with GIS: A Laboratory Guide for an Integrated Spacestat/Idrisi Environment, edited by Rusty Dodson, preface by Luc Anselin.

75. CNN.com - Scientists Sequence Genome Of Cholera Bacteria - August 2, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/02/cholera.genome/index.html

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76. How The Cholera Bacterium Got Its Virulence Harvard Researchers Find cholera Bacterium May Take Instruction From a Virus.BOSTONJune 28, 1996In 1993, as cholera swept through India, http://www.hms.harvard.edu/news/releases/696cholera.html

Contact: Peta Gillyatt gillyatt@hms.harvard.edu How the Cholera Bacterium Got Its Virulence Harvard Researchers Find Cholera Bacterium May Take Instruction From a Virus BOSTONJune 28, 1996In 1993, as cholera swept through India, scientists were faced with a set of perplexing questions: What caused the deadly Bengal strain of cholera to reappear? Where did the deadly cholera pathogen come from in the first place? Scientists have known that the cholera bacterium (Vibrio cholera) owes its virulence to two factorsthe cholera toxin and another protein, TCP pili, which enables it to clump together and adhere to the intestines. But how the Vibrio cholera got those deadly factors has been a mystery. Two Harvard Medical School scientists have found a partial answer to the puzzle. It appears that the cholera pathogen responsible for the Indian epidemic (Vibrio cholera 01) picked up one of its most lethal patches of DNAthe gene coding for the cholera toxinfrom a virus, CTX phage. "Here you have this dumb bacteriumVibrio cholerae doesn't know how to become a pathogenand the virus instructs it by introducing the cholera gene into the bacterial genome. The virus is the smart player in the interaction," says John Mekalanos, Shipley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. He and Matthew K. Waldor, research fellow in medicine, announced their findings in the June 28 issue of Science. The virus's first clever act is to select its students. It appears to introduce the gene for cholera toxin only into those bacteria that express the TCP pili protein.

77. Professional Nursing Today: Cholera - Epidemics Are Major Health Concerns Comprehensive overview of this disease, from the South African publication ProfessionalNursing Today. Describes the responsible organism, transmission, http://www.medpharm.co.za/pnt/2001/first/cholera.html

Vacancies Classifieds Events Previous Issues ... Table of Content Cholera - Epidemics are major health concerns Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Although members of the species Vibrio, cause a number of important infections, classic among them is cholera, a devastating disease caused by Vibrio cholerae group O1. This particular species has been responsible for seven global pandemics and much suffering over the past two centuries. The infectious dose for cholera is relatively high and most persons infected with V. cholerae do not become ill. However, the bacterium is present in their faeces for 7-14 days. When illness does occur, more than 90% of episodes are of mild or moderate severity. Less than 10% of ill persons develop typical cholera with signs of moderate or severe dehydration. For unexplained reasons, susceptibility to cholera is significantly influenced by ABO blood group status, those with type O blood are at greatest risk, while those with type AB are at least risk. Cholera is spread by the ingestion of contaminated water and food. Sudden large outbreaks are usually caused by a contaminated water supply. Ingestion of water contaminated with human faeces is the most common route of infection with

78. Cholera Kills 44 In Malawi CNN http://cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/01/27/malawi.cholera.ap/index.html

79. ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Cholera In Niger cholera in Niger. From 13 to 28 July 2005, the Ministry of Health, Niger reporteda total of 49 cases and 5 deaths (case fatality rate 10.2%). http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVIU-6ERFYH?OpenDocument&rc=1&cc=ne

80. CNN.com - More Than 4,000 People Affected By Cholera Outbreak In South Africa - CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/10/29/southafrica.cholera.ap/index.html

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