effects of cholera

Cholera

Nature and impact of epidemics:

19th century epidemics
• Epidemics of many diseases killed numbers of people in the nineteenth century.
• These included diseases such as typhoid, typhus and cholera.
• Little was understood about the causes of infectious diseases.

Cholera
• First recorded in India in 400 BC
• Caused from drinking water polluted, sometimes by the excrement or vomit of cholera victims.
• Its symptoms included diarrhoea, vomiting and death eventually due to fluid loss.
• It spread from India along trade routes in 1817 ...