cholera
Severe dehydrating illness
Cholera is a severe bacterial infection of the small intestine, spread through contaminated water and causing violent diarrhea and dehydration.
Without treatment, it can kill within hours.
Cholera outbreaks occur where sanitation is poor, often following natural disasters or in refugee camps.
A cholera epidemic swept through the city.
Frequent liquid bowel movements
- dehydrationExcessive fluid loss
- vomitingExpelling stomach contents orally
- electrolyteConductive dissolved substance
- crampsInvoluntary muscle tightening
thirst · lethargy · shock · intravenous
Sudden eruption of trouble
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
- transmissionSending of information
spread · contamination · mortality · endemic · surveillance · intervention · isolation · prevention
Harmful atmospheric emanation
- VictorianOf a prim era
- LondonEngland's capital city
- HamburgGerman city-state, major port
- HaitiCaribbean island nation
Bengal · quarantine · lazaretto · epidemic · nineteenth-century · waterborne
Curved rod bacterium
- toxinBiological-origin harm agent
- bacteriumSingle-celled prokaryotic life
- microorganismMicroscopic living entity
- pathogenDisease-causing microorganism
cultures · bacillus · prokaryote · virulence · colonization · fecal-oral · waterborne · contamination
diarrhea
Frequent liquid bowel movements
- dehydrationExcessive fluid loss
- vomitingExpelling stomach contents orally
- electrolyteConductive dissolved substance
cramps · thirst · lethargy · shock · intravenous
outbreak
Sudden eruption of trouble
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
transmission · spread · contamination · mortality · endemic · surveillance · intervention · isolation · prevention · disinfection
miasma
Harmful atmospheric emanation
Haiti · Bengal · quarantine · lazaretto · epidemic · nineteenth-century · waterborne
vibrio
Curved rod bacterium
- toxinBiological-origin harm agent
- bacteriumSingle-celled prokaryotic life
- microorganismMicroscopic living entity
pathogen · cultures · bacillus · prokaryote · virulence · colonization · fecal-oral · waterborne · contamination
- infectionsviral infection, bacterial infection, fungal infection, parasitic infection, bacteremia
- infectious diseasesanthrax, malaria, measles, flu, hepatitis
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, epidemiology
- African healthmalaria, HIV, tuberculosis, TB, Ebola
- colonial medicinebloodletting, leeches, colonial medicine, cupping, apothecary
- death causescause of death, natural causes, manner of death, accidental death, natural death
cholerahealth
Condition of body, mind
wellness · good health · vitality · robust health · hydration
choleraairborne disease
Pathogen spread by inhalation
tuberculosis · influenza · measles · COVID-19 · respiratory illness
choleraedema
Pathological tissue puffiness
fluid retention · water retention · overhydration · dropsy · congestive heart failure
- cholera epidemicOutbreak of severe diarrheal disease
- cholera outbreakSudden spread of intestinal infection
- cholera vaccineImmunization against intestinal plague