Courtney Nickle
September 18, 2009
4:38 p.m
Cholera is a extreme diarrhea with abdominal cramps plus a fever. It is very hard to survive because it dehydrates its victims so bad. It is also known that Hypokalemia, metabolic acidosis, and sometimes a hypovolemic shock. Children are the worst victims since there immune systems are not fully developed. How you catch it you asks is by ingestion Vibrio cholera. 75% of people don’t even know that they are infected and don’t realize that it stays in your system for 7 - 14 days. Russia, Asia, and Turkish provinces have been dealing with this wicked sickness for awhile now and are having trouble containing it. There have been 38 deaths and 48 new cases reported in theses areas. How to help theses countries is difficult because there are only 2 oral vaccines for people to take, but they’re more for travelers than a community needing help. Theses countries need to really aim at the cooking facilities and make them as safe as possible and make sure that the food is fresh and cooked well.
Having so many diseases/sicknesses going on in theses countries at once can not be good seeing how the past ones that I have talked about don’t have vaccines and/or can’t get help to try to contain it. It is hard to believe that they have to fight this on there own and only have hope and prayer to go on to see if they survive this sickness.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs107/en/index.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E0D71538E233A25752C0A9619C94639ED7CF
http://aapredbook.aappublications.org/cgi/content/extract/2009/1/3.151.1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/medical_notes/3009779.stm
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