ENVS 65 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Soho, Oral Rehydration Therapy, Plasmodium Falciparum
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The bacterium vibrio cholerae infects the small intestines. Cholera affects 3-5 million people per year, causing at least 100,000 deaths. Symptoms can start within one day of ingestion and result in severe diarrhea and vomiting, leading to dehydration and death within days or hours if not treated. Dr. john snow traced the london cholera outbreak of 1854 to the broad street pump, thereby launching the modern urban sanitation movement. The source of cholera infection is typically other infected people, leading to outbreaks. Recent outbreaks have occurred in haiti in 2010 following the earthquake and. November 2011 in a kenyan refugee camp for somalis fleeing violence in their homeland. Treatment can be successful but must be administered soon after the onset of the illness since it progresses so rapidly. Oral rehydration therapy or an iv drip; A diluted salt and sugar mix in pure water; and. Industrialized nations have not had cholera outbreaks in decades due to near-universal advanced sanitation.
