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The 1902 cholera outbreak of the Philippines began in Manila in March 1902 and the first wave ended in February 1903. [1] This was followed by a second wave from May 1903 to April 1904. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Cholera , a disease familiar to both Filipinos and American medical officers, spread throughout the archipelago during the aftermath of the ...
According to Leonard Rogers, following an outbreak of cholera at the Haridwar Kumbh Mela, the epidemic spread to Europe via Punjab, Afghanistan, Persia, and southern Russia. [2] [3] French map (published in 1911) showing the progress of the cholera epidemic from 1902 to 1910.
The 1902–1904 cholera epidemic claimed 200,000 lives in the Philippines, [59] including their revolutionary hero and first prime minister Apolinario Mabini. A 1905 governmental report mentioned he reappearance of asiatic cholera, characterized that as noteworthy, and described a "very strict marine quarantine" and other measures being imposed ...
Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, killing hundreds of thousands of people, including both the eleventh and twelfth presidents of the United States, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor.
Japan suffered at least seven major outbreaks of cholera between 1858 and 1902. The Ansei outbreak of 1858–60, for example, is believed to have killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people in Tokyo alone. [32] An outbreak of cholera in Chicago in 1854 took the lives of 5.5% of the population (about 3,500 people).
Today we report on new genetic research that may lead to tools or treatments to prevent cholera outbreaks, and on a study of a potentially practice-changing approach to treating some liver tumors.
Richard Pearson Strong (1872–1948) was a tropical medicine professor at Harvard who did significant work on plague, cholera, bacillary dysentery and other diseases. He was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard, where he critically infected 24 unknowing victims with cholera, causing 13 of their deaths.
A cholera outbreak in Syria has already killed at least 33 people, posing a danger across the frontlines of the country's 11-year-long war and stirring fears in crowded camps for the displaced.