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Cholera Outbreak in Haiti Continues
Cholera affects 3-5 million people each year, killing more than 100,000. The diarrheal disease, spread by contaminated food and water, is often a major problem in disaster areas where a clean water...
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Cholera Outbreak in Haiti May Reach Almost Double Predicted Cases
In October 2010, cholera broke out in Haiti for the first time in decades, devastating the country while it was still recovering from the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands and...
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Cholera Vaccination in Haiti
Cholera is one of those diseases that you really don’t want to get. It begins like any other intestinal illness, with abdominal cramps, nausea, and vomiting. Suddenly, a very profuse, watery diarrhea...
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Please, Nurse, May I Have Some Plague Vaccine?
Today's blog post is by Robert D. Hicks, PhD, Director, Mütter Museum/Historical Medical Libraryread more
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Cholera Specimen Reveals Its Genetic Secrets
The building is abuzz today after the online publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of a paper (full text available) analyzing a Mütter Museum specimen.read more
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