ZKEA
World Outbreak Update
CholeraCholera is an efficient historical killer of people, but it is a well-understood killer. The key to prevention of the disease is simple: clean water. Given clean water supplies and good public hygiene, cholera is virtually never a problem. Because of this cholera was one of the first diseases to be "conquered".
Over the past few years, however, the conquered bacterium has returned. In India and Africa, mortality from cholera is increasing rapidly. And the disease has even spread to previously unaffected areas. In 1991 cholera hit Peru and then spread down the west coast of South America. Eventually the disease even made its way to North America. The New World, once a cholera-free zone, now appears to be permanently afflicted. What is causing this resurgence? As is usually the case, the answer is complex: failing health systems, pollution of previously clean water supplies, wars and population dislocations, changing weather patterns. Even globalization contributes - the cholera bacterium that hit Peru may have been imported via a ship from India.
Link: Cholera Returns
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