
Cholera Patient
Cholera is a dreaded epidemic disease that causes such violent diarrhea that its victims may die from dehydration a few hours after they begin to feel unwell. Occurring mostly in tropical countries which have poor hygiene, cholera classically spreads from person to person in contaminated drinking water.
In the last few years, however, small cholera outbreaks have occurred in Europe in places where the hygiene is above reproach. Until recently, these little epidemic could not be explained, but now we may have the answer.