Cholera
Global Health Media Project. (2011, December 10). Story of Cholera. [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG1VNSCsP5Q
Map of Malaria
- Centre for Diseases. (2018). Cholera. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/index.html
These maps visually depict CDC’s cholera assessments for each country with cholera. Assessments of cholera endemicity are based largely on national surveillance reports which usually do not contain city-level information. Therefore, the maps display assessments of the presence of cholera in most countries at only the national and provincial level.
Introduction
"Cholera, an acute infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and characterized by extreme diarrhea with rapid and severe depletion of body fluids and salts. Cholera has often risen to epidemic proportions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, particularly in India and Bangladesh. In the past two centuries, seven pandemics (global epidemics) of cholera have carried the disease to countries around the world." (Britannica, 2017)
Websites
- Government of South Africa. (2018). Cholera. Retrieved from http://www.health.gov.za/index.php/diseases?id=269It is caused by an infection in the intestine from bacteria. You can get cholera by drinking water or eating food contaminated with the cholera bacteria. An epidemic is usually caused by the faeces of an infected person that contaminates the water and food. The disease can spread rapidly in areas with inadequate treatment of sewage and drinking water. It is not likely to spread directly from one person to another. Casual contact with an infected person is not dangerous.
- United Nations. (n.d.). Cholera in Haiti. Retrieved from https://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/Cholera%20in%20Haiti.pdfCholera has spread to the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Mexico. It is a threat due to sanitation gaps throughout the region. Seventeen countries have sanitation access below 85 per cent.
- World Health Organisation. (2018). Cholera. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs107/en/
Cholera is an extremely virulent disease that can cause severe acute watery diarrhoea. It takes between 12 hours and 5 days for a person to show symptoms after ingesting contaminated food or water (2). Cholera affects both children and adults and can kill within hours if untreated. - Government of Victoria. (2017). Cholera. Retrieved from https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/public-health/infectious-diseases/disease-information-advice/choleraCholera is an acute diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. There are more than 200 V. cholerae serogroups; however, only the toxigenic stains of serogroups O1 and O139 are predominantly associated with cholera and cholera epidemics. Occasionally, other serogroups of V. cholerae are associated with sporadic cases but are not spread in the epidemic form.
- World Health Organisation. (2017). Ending Cholera. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/cholera/publications/global-roadmap/en/
Ending Cholera—A Global Roadmap to 2030 operationalises the new global strategy for cholera control at the country level and provides a concrete path toward a world in which cholera is no longer a threat to public health.
Social and Political Impacts
- Bourgette, J. (n.d.). Effect of Cholera: Haiti. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/choleradystentery/home/effects-of-cholera-by-jasper-bEconomics plays a huge part in the outbreak of Cholera. Usually the regions of a country with less money get hit harder and more easily, because money helps keep things sanitary. For example, there has been an outbreak in Haiti, which has affected mostly their poorer region. “The wealthy drew their drinking water from upstream and dumped their sewage below that point, where it made its way to the
- Zimbabwe Review. (2008, December 9). Cholera crisis changes political dynamics. Retrieved from https://zimreview.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/cholera-crisis-changes-political-dynamics/The cholera epidemic sweeping Zimbabwe is mainly a humanitarian tragedy. But it also will have lasting effects on the country’s messy political situation.
- Musumali. (2018, January 6). Social, economic impact of cholera huge – Musumali. Retrieved from https://www.zambianobserver.com/social-economic-impact-of-cholera-huge-musumali/Socialist Party of Zambia interim general secretary Cosmas Musumali says ordinary citizens in Zambia should not expect a lasting solution to the deaths and misery caused by cholera and other poverty-related diseases under the capitalist system. Dr Musumali stated in a statement yesterday that the outbreak of cholera in Zambia was reflective of a failed periphery capitalist system.
- IRIN. (2008, November 21). Politics of Cholera: South Africa. Retrieved from http://www.irinnews.org/news/2008/11/21/politics-choleraThe South African government announced on 20 November that it was ready to help Zimbabwe "address the cholera outbreak", and that discussions were underway with the UN World Health Organisation and the regional Southern African Development Community.