Cholera Flashcards
Cholera is an infectious ______ illness, a dangerous disease which manifests within ______ of contamination.
Diarrheal
a few hours
The cholera infection is usually mild or without symptoms
T/F
T
Cholera can be very severe especially if left untreated.
T/F
T
Cholera leads to a loss of _____ which eventually leads to _____ and _____.
body fluids
dehydration and shock
Without treatment and medical attention, cholera can lead to death within ________.
a few hours
The exact origin of Cholera is unknown but early texts from ____ in the _____. and other scholars describe cases of cholera-like illnesses.
Hippocrates; 4th century B.C
The first modern and detailed account of cholera however came from a ______ Historian named ____ who described an outbreak in 1543 of a disease in the____ which is located in the area of _______ and ______.
The locals called it “ _______ ” and it was reported to kill victims within______of developing symptoms.
Portugese
Gaspar Correa
Ganges Delta
Bangladesh and India
moryxy
8hours
Cholera became a disease of global importance in 1817 with a outbreak in ______.
The source of the epidemic was ________ and spread throughout most of India, travelling through modern Myanmar and modern-day Sri Lanka by travelling through trade routes established by the Europeans.
Jessore, India
contaminated rice
By ______, Cholera had spread to _____,_______, and _______.
It spread to China and by _____ was in ____.
The disease reached European territories reaching modern day Turkey, Syria and Southern Russia.
The pandemic died out _____ after it began most likely due to a _____\between _______ which may have killed the bacteria in water supplies.
1820
Thailand, Indonesia and the Phillipines
1822
Japan
6years ; severe winter; 1823 and 1824
How many cholera pandemics do we have so far
7
The current (seventh) pandemic started in _____ in 1961, reached _____ in 1971 and the ____ in 1991.
South Asia
Africa
Americas
The ___ cholera pandemic however is regarded as the deadliest in history.
It took place between ______ and _____. Originating in ____ , it devastated Asia, Europe, North America and Africa.
third
1852 and 1859
India
In ____, the British physician John show mapped out cholera cases in the Soho area of London which allowed him to identify the source of the disease in the area, _____ from a ______.
1854
contaminated water from a public well pump
His work was not totally accepted at the time, since there were other theories of disease causation prevalent at the time such as ______, which claimed that cholera was contracted by _________
miasmatism
breathing air contaminated by disease containing clouds.
When did Robert Koch isolate the bacterium vibrio cholerae
1883
