1. Cholera
By: Nadia Nagy

2. What is Cholera?
Cholera is a diarrheal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae
Bhujel 2013
3-5 million cholera cases currently with ~120,000 deaths each year (WHO 2013)
If left untreated can be fatal with in a few hours
Fecal oral route transmission
In water
Sewage
Food
Unsanitary hygiene

3. Symptoms 75% of those infected do not show symptoms
Symptoms include : Watery diarrhea
Severe dehydration
Shock
Vomiting
**Immunocompromised have greater risk of death

4. History
In 1882 German bacteriologist Robert Koch, suggested that cholera was caused by a bacterium that secreted a toxin which caused rapid water loss.
Reservoir found in the Ganges Delta in India
In the 19th Century
1st pandemic
7 pandemics
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5. Causes
Environmental:
Live in costal water and travel with their host
Growth is fueled by urea in sewage
In Humans:
Live in the intestine
Pass bacteria through feces deposit
Secretes toxin called CTX that increases stool flow
Cholera transmission: the host, pathogen, and bacteriophage dynamic. (2009)

6. Pathology
BOLO News 2013

7. Treatment Oral rehydration salts IV Fluids for severe dehydration
Vaccines for preventive measures:
Shanchol :long term protection
Dukoral : Short term
production
Antibiotics also available but not common
-can limit bacteria in fecal matter

8. Cholera In the US Rare in the U.S.
Pandemic in 1834 hit Mississippi, New Orleans, and New York
California, Utah, and Oregon pandemic from 1849–1855
150,000 Americans died from both pandemics
believed spread from Irish immigrant ships from England, and then along the gold rush trail

9. Haiti On going epidemic from October 2010-present
Spread quickly after 2010
earthquake
As of November 2013
there has been 689,448 cholera cases and 8,448 deaths
Pan American Health Organization (2013)
due to inadequate sewage and water treatment

10. FIG 1 Genetic relationships among V
FIG 1 Genetic relationships among V. cholerae isolates from Nepal and Haiti. A single maximum parsimony tree was reconstructed using 752 SNPs from 34 whole-genome sequences. SNP differences among the three most closely related Nepali groups and the Haitian group are shown.
Once the cholera outbreak was confirmed following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, rumors spread that
the disease was brought to Haiti by Nepalese soldiers serving as United Nations peacekeepers.
-whole-genome sequence typing (WGST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE),
and antimicrobial susceptibility testing to characterize 24 recent Vibrio cholerae isolates from Nepal suggested
epidemiological link with the Haitian outbreak.
-Isolates were obtained from 10 from five different districts in Nepal.
-Compared the 24 genomes to 10 previously sequenced V. cholerae isolates, including 3 from the Haitian
outbreak Antimicrobial susceptibility and PFGE patterns were consistent with an epidemiological link between
the isolates from Nepal and Haiti.
-Results in this study are consistent with Nepal as the origin of the Haitian outbreak.
Hendriksen et al. (2011)

11. There was a correlation in time and places between the arrival of a Nepalese soliders from an area experiencing a cholera outbreak and the appearance of the first cases in Meille a few days after.

12. Hendriksen et al. (2011)

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