cholera epidemic
Mass bacterial illness
A cholera epidemic is a widespread outbreak of cholera—an acute intestinal infection causing severe diarrhea and dehydration, often fatal without treatment.
Cholera spreads through contaminated water, so epidemics typically strike where sanitation fails: The cholera epidemic followed the flooding.
Historically, cholera epidemics devastated cities before modern water treatment.
- diarrheaFrequent liquid bowel movements
- contaminated waterImpure liquid with pathogens
- vaccination campaignsOrganized mass inoculation efforts
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- case fatality rateDeaths divided by diagnoses
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Community-level disease prevention
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Complete global destruction of variola
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