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Cholera bacteria have been found in shellfish and plankton. [19] Transmission is usually through the fecal-oral route of contaminated food or water caused by poor sanitation. [2] Most cholera cases in developed countries are a result of transmission by food, while in developing countries it is more often water. [19]
First cholera pandemic: 1817–1824 Asia, Europe Cholera: 100,000+ [131] 1820 Savannah yellow fever epidemic 1820 Savannah, Georgia, United States Yellow fever: 700 [132] 1821 Barcelona yellow fever epidemic 1821 Barcelona, Spain Yellow fever: 5,000–20,000 [133] [134] Second cholera pandemic: 1826–1837 Asia, Europe, North America Cholera ...
The sixth cholera pandemic, which was due to the classical strain of O1, had little effect in western Europe because of advances in sanitation and public health, but major Russian cities and the Ottoman Empire particularly suffered a high rate of cholera deaths. More than 500,000 people died of cholera in Russia from 1900 to 1925, which was a ...
Today, cholera is a disease that largely impacts less developed and impoverished countries, "typically in regions of the world with poor infrastructure, conflict or displaced people who do not ...
The second cholera pandemic, known as the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic, probably starts along the Ganges river. It is the first to reach Europe and North America. Like in the first one, fatalities reach six figures. [17] Cholera: India, western and eastern Asia, Europe, Americas. 1847: Crisis: The 1847 North American typhus epidemic occurs.
With an average of 123.6 deaths per 100,000 from 2003 through 2010 the most dangerous occupation in the United States is the cell tower construction industry. [103] Selected occupations with high fatality rates, 2011, in the United States [104]
The west-African outbreak of cholera during 1970–1971 infected more than 400,000 persons. [19] Africa had a high cholera fatality rate of 16% by 1962. 25 countries were infected by the end of 1971 and, between 1972 and 1991, cholera spread throughout much of the remainder of Africa. [18]
EgyptĖ 1883 Cholera epidemic in Cairo. In late June 1883, the first cases of cholera in Egypt, recently occupied by the British Empire in 1882, occurred in the port city of Damietta on the Mediterranean coast and rapidly spread in the Nile Delta and throughout the country in the summer and autumn, [26] "notwithstanding cordons maintained with a degree of severity and cruelty almost unexampled ...