THE PANDEMIC OF CHOLERA
Epidemiology on a Global Front. Nursing class forum
eview the World Health Organization’s (WHO) weekly Epidemiology Report found at http://www.who.int/wer/en/<o:
Select a recent week and discuss one of the topics that can be found in the report. You may use other resources from the Lessons, to further explore this topic. Explain why you selected this global health topic: Cholera 2018, link –
https://extranet.who.int/iris/
The initial post should be 400 words
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The Pandemic of Cholera
Cholera is one of the oldest diseases in the world, which is believed to originate from the Ganges Delta located around India and Bangladesh in 1543 (Dorman et al., 2019). The disease was killing people within eight hours and had a very high fatality rate to a point where locals were struggling to burry all the dead people that were dying every day. The disease spread fast to other parts of the world like South Russia, Turkey…
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