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Diarrheal infections are estimated to cause 1.7 billion disease episodes and 700,000 deaths globally each year, mainly in children in low- and middle-income countries. In addition to these direct consequences, infectious diarrhea is a major cause of malnutrition leading to…
HISTORY OF DISEASE Cholera is a rapidly dehydrating, watery diarrheal disease caused by intestinal infection with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae serogroups O1 and O139. Cholera has probably existed on the Indian subcontinent for thousands of years. Ancient manuscripts describe the…