Cholera Archives
Cholera
Cholera vaccine clinical trials: A cross-sectional analysis of clinical trials registries
Cholera has been one of the world's biggest public health challenges for centuries. The presence of this disease brings into focus the social determinants of health in different parts of the world. Research and development efforts to find safe and effective Cholera vaccines are critical to decreasing...
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Socioecological systems analysis of potential factors for cholera outbreaks and assessment of health system’s readiness to detect and respond in Ilemela and Nkasi districts, Tanzania
Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by eating or drinking food or water contaminated with Vibrio cholera O1 or by direct inter-human exposure, such as contact with hands contaminated with faeces from a cholera patient [1]. It is endemic in more than 50 countries in the world putting...
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The Religious Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Cholera, the Ghost Rite, and Missionary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea
Protestant Christianity has been very successful in Korea, gaining a significant number of followers since the first American missionaries arrived in 1885. One of the reasons why Christianity flourished so quickly was that it was brought by medical missionaries who did not simply want to hand over “the...
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Geospatial analysis of cholera outbreak in Lusaka, Zambia, between 2023 and 2024
Cholera is an acute gastroenteritis caused by a bacterial agent Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae) [1]. The bacteria still remain a pathogen of public health concern in Africa, and a total of 335,059 cholera cases, including 6197 deaths, were reported in the World Health Organization Regional...
