Vibrio cholerae , the species of bacteria that causes cholera, has over 200 serotypes, based on cell antigens.

Cholera has been a laboratory for the study of evolution of virulence.

In Harare, the city council offered free graves to cholera victims.

The spread of cholera in 1837 led to a revolt against the Bourbon government.

Cholera is rarely spread directly from person to person.

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow (1813 1858), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

That has sparked cholera epidemics in ports along the world and has led to increased concentration on trying to make sure shipping doesn't move these vectors of cholera around the world.

Cholera was reported in Haiti for the first time in over 50 years last October.

Kenya Somali reports the outbreak of Cholera in Mandera (a town innorth east province of Kenya)

Millions died of drowning while some died from starvation or from waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhus.

Most immediately, there is an urgent need for more cholera treatment centers.

Once, after talking about it, he said, No, it's just that 100 Years of Solitude is the fable but the true novel of mine is Love in the Time of Cholera . He liked the characters, he liked the story...

In 1967, in the middle of the Biafran Nigerian Civil War, Dr. Njoku Obi invented the Cholera vaccine.

The deadly dozen diseases include avian flu, cholera, Ebola, Lyme disease, tuberculosis, and yellow fever.

In the ensuing chaos, more than 50,000 refugees died from cholera.

Others have cholera, and when they die by the roadside there is no one to bury them.

The Public Health department in Mandera District has closed all eateries in Mandera Town following a cholera outbreak.

More than 50 per cent of people in Africa suffer from water related diseases such as cholera.

An increased prevalence of diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, meningitis, measles and poliomyelitis has been reported.

In 1991, this cholera organism got into Lima, Peru, and within two months it had spread to the neighboring areas.

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They're a tiny fraction of an inch long, and they can carry on their little legs some of the cholera bacteria that then leads to human disease.

In 1885, Gaudí moved to rural Sant Feliu de Codines to escape the cholera epidemic that was ravaging Barcelona.

Maria's reign was also notable for a public health act aimed at curbing the spread of cholera throughout the country.

These are two shots of a red tide coming on shore here and a bacteria in the genus vibrio, which includes the genus that has cholera in it.

With the media now reporting that cholera is once again spreading in the camp, Burke highlighted the danger at the beginning of November

The country has been grappling with a cholera epidemic since mid June, with 22,000 cases and 374 deaths reported.

AIDS is coming back. Ebola seems to be rearing its head with much too much frequency, and old diseases like cholera are becoming resistant to antibiotics.

Experts say we've already seen examples of this impact, from epidemics of cholera in Bangladesh to Rift Valley fever in Africa.

Wine was still being used to sterilize water as late as the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892 in order to control the spread of the disease.

Not surprisingly, the incidence of cholera is highest in Haiti s slums and rural areas, where people are farthest from assistance.

Current research aims at discovering the signal that makes the cholera bacteria stop swimming and start to colonize (that is, adhere to the cells of) the small intestine.

Most of the information that we collected on the cholera outbreak didn't come from testing water it came from forms like this, which documented all the people we failed to help.

He is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854.

Parties reported information on the likely incidence of diseases such as malaria (e.g. Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands), cholera (e.g. Armenia, Zimbabwe), and dengue fever (e.g. Argentina).

Marx returned to Paris, which was then under the grip of both a reactionary counter revolution and a cholera epidemic, and was soon expelled by the city authorities, who considered him a political threat.

In responding to the chemical environment at the intestinal wall, the V. cholerae bacteria produce the TcpP TcpH proteins, which, together with the ToxR ToxS proteins, activate the expression of the ToxT regulatory protein.

Deeply concerned at the recent floods in Djibouti causing an important loss in livestock, as well as serious damage to roads and health establishments thus causing cholera and malaria epidemics

Until June 2007, plague was one of the three epidemic diseases specifically reportable to the World Health Organization (the other two being cholera and yellow fever).

Between November 1866 and July 1867, Caxias organized a health corps (to give aid to the endless number of injured soldiers and to fight the epidemic of cholera) and a system of supply of the troops.

Indeed, it is humbling to remember that some of history s most deadly invasions were carried out by single cell organisms, such as cholera, bubonic plague, and tuberculosis.

However, since it does not provide 100 immunity from the disease, food hygiene precautions should also be taken into consideration when visiting an area where there is a high risk of becoming infected with cholera.

We are deeply concerned about the possibility of the spread of communicable lethal diseases, such as cholera and malaria, among the survivors, and we believe that every necessary precaution should be taken to protect them.

It is vital that the Haitian people in all communities are fully informed about how to deal with this disease, and that they understand that cholera is quickly cured when diagnosed and treated quickly.

These improvements included chlorination of drinking water, filtration and sewage treatment which led to the decline in deaths caused by infectious waterborne diseases such as cholera and intestinal diseases.