Cholera and Bacterial Infections. Flashcards
Cholera is what?
an infectious disease
How did Cholera spread?
by water
What did human waste also carry?
Typhoid and Dysentery
What are symptoms of Cholera?
Diarrhoea, dehydration, grey skin, death
What is Epidemiology?
Using evidence from maps to see how disease is being transmitted, how the disease is moving. plotting information on a map.
What is the name for disease?
pathogen’s
What does Pathogen’s mean?
disease
What does transmitted mean?
spreads
What does Miasma mean?
disease spread by bad air.
what’s the word for bad air? the smell was bad in the air.
Miasma
Who disputed the Miasma {spread by bad air) theory of Cholera
john snow
what ways can disease (pathogen’s) be spread (transmitted)?
Water, animals, body fluids, food, airborne.
Why did the workers at the brewery not catch Chlolera?
They drank beer not water.
How is Cholera caused?
By eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called VIBRIO Cholera
