cholera tuberculosis all of these diseases were caused by bacteria and so
Cholera kills about half of the people who get it, if they're not rapidly treated.
Cholera started in the environment, which is where a lot of new microbes are coming out of today.
Cholera is coming down the Hudson River.
cholera .
And cholera is water-borne.
the cholera toxin.
When cholera first emerged in the 19th century, it hit some of the most advanced cities of the time-- cities like New York, which was plagued by repeated epidemics
of cholera in the 1800s.
of cholera .
large cholera epidemic.
- They're getting cholera , they're getting food poisoning or ice poisoning.
ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
There was cholera .
since Snow and cholera , bacteria have been seen as a problem, disease-causing vectors that
The management of cholera is to avoid dehydration.
A severe case of cholera may need five, six, seven liters in the first two hours.
There hadn't been cholera for centuries in Haiti.
And then the cholera came.
Massive outbreak of cholera , so much so that city officials believed that they would lose the city.
There was a cholera epidemic in Soho, and it killed a lot of people.
You got cholera .
But also because cholera is one of the most successful of our pandemic-causing pathogens.
So we think of cholera today as a poor person's disease.
see if cholera is going to threaten the City of New York.
And so cholera was allowed to come down these waterways again and again.
There's cholera .
That doesn't contain cholera , or typhoid, or any other number of waterborne diseases which have been the scourge of humanity throughout history?
will be defended against cholera by building a sewage system.
And they began to suffer from cholera .
You don't want any patient with cholera to be able to enter the hospital.
Dehydration that's caused from diarrhea and cholera was one of the primary killers of child under five in Bangladesh.
had been subject to several cholera epidemics that were believed to have been caused, very likely correctly,
But it wasn't true when cholera was a brand-new disease.
And there had been a cholera outbreak.
And the bacteria that causes cholera actually lives naturally in this environment, and in similar environments around the world.
And that's what kills you from cholera .
So the first pandemic of cholera began in the Sundarbans in 1817.
And it was perfect for cholera to come over from London to Paris, over the Atlantic into Canada, and thence filter throughout the interior of North America.
So you can imagine when cholera came into a city like that, it just exploded.
The epicenter of a lot of the cholera epidemics happened in a slum called Five Points, which is pictured here.
And at the moment there is a cholera epidemic in the camp, because every rainy season without the sanitation, the disease just licks through the camp like wildfire.
If it didn't have cholera in it, and cholera smacks Haiti, you'd better change the plan.
And he once again injected some cholera into a group of chickens, which we shall call group A chickens.
He surmised that the batch of cholera that he had injected into them had become weakened over the summer months.
Ghost Map" is a story about a cholera epidemic in London, in the 1850s.
New Zealand I've dealt with a cholera epidemic in the 1850s in London all the
They were lacking clean water and suffering from cholera .
He removed the handle on that pump and lo and behold cholera was declining.
You helped with some mapping of the disease of cholera when it struck the country later in the year, in October time.