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Here’s a look at angeran acute diarrheal infection that has killed thousands of people all over the world.

Cholera is contracted by consuming food or water contaminated with the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. The bacterium is usually found in water contaminated with feces.

Dehydration from the rapid loss of body fluids is the reason why the disease can be fatal if the patient is not treated.

The short incubation period of the disease from two hours to five days increases the likelihood of outbreaks.

Oral rehydration solution (ORS) can deal successfully up to 80% of cholera patients.

There are three two-dose oral cholera vaccines available, Dukoral, Shanchol and Euvichol. There is also an FDA-approved single-dose oral vaccine in the United States called Vaxchora.

Cholera is rare in industrialized nations.

People living in areas with a shortage of safe drinking water or inadequate sanitation are vulnerable to cholera.

2021 – 223,370 cases reported in 35 countries with 4,159 deaths.

– In the United States there were no cases or deaths.

2020 – 323,320 cases reported in 27 countries with 857 deaths.

– In the United States there were no cases or deaths.

2019 – 923,037 cases reported in 31 countries with 1,911 deaths.

– In the United States there were no cases or deaths.

2018 – 499,447 cases reported in 34 countries with 2,990 deaths.

– In the United States there were 10 cases and no deaths.

2017 – 1,227,391 cases reported in 34 countries with 5,654 deaths.

– In the United States there were 11 cases and no deaths.

2016 – 132,121 cases reported in 38 countries with 2,420 deaths.

– In the United States there were 14 cases and no deaths.

2015 – 172,454 cases reported in 42 countries with 1,304 deaths.

– In the United States there were four cases and no deaths.

2014 – 190,549 cases reported in 42 countries with 2,231 deaths.

– In the United States there were seven cases without deaths.

2013 – 129,064 cases reported in 47 countries with 2,102 deaths.

– In the United States there were 14 cases without deaths.

2012 – 245,393 cases reported in 48 countries with 3,034 deaths.

– In the United States there were 18 cases without deaths.

2011 – 589,854 cases reported in 58 countries with 7,816 deaths.

– In the United States there were 42 cases without deaths.

2010 – 317,534 cases reported in 48 countries with 7,543 deaths.

– In the United States there were 15 cases without deaths.

1817 – The first pandemic begins in Southeast Asia.

1829 – The second pandemic begins in India.

1852 – The third pandemic begins in India.

1863 – The fourth pandemic begins in the Bay of Bengal.

1881 – The fifth pandemic begins in India.

1899 – The sixth pandemic begins in India.

1961 – The seventh pandemic begins in Indonesia.

July 1994 – Anger explodes in Rwandan refugee camps near Goma, Zaire.

October 2010 – Ten months after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, an outbreak of cholera begins. About 800,000 cases and 10,000 deaths in Haiti are reported later. A study of the outbreak indicates that it originated from a camp set up by UN peacekeepers.

October 10, 2013 – Human rights lawyers file class action lawsuit in US federal court. accusing the United Nations of negligence and misconduct on behalf of the victims of the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010.

January 9, 2015 – A US federal judge rules that Haitian victims of the 2010 cholera outbreak cannot sue the United Nationssince the UN has legal immunity.

August 18, 2016 – For the first time, the The United Nations acknowledges its involvement in the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010.

April 2017 – TO cholera outbreak Starts at Yemen in the middle of the war.

December 21, 2017 – The International Committee of the Red Cross announces that the cholera outbreak in Yemen has reached 1 million suspected cases, making it the world’s largest cholera outbreak in recent history.

September 21, 2018 – The WHO reports more than 1.2 million cases of cholera in 2017 and more than 5,600 deaths in 34 countries around the world. Yemen accounted for 84% of all suspected cholera cases and 41% of deaths. The high number of cases is due to the outbreak in Yemen, as well as epidemics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan.

March 2022 – TO cholera outbreak It starts in Malawi.