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What does cholera mean?

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  1. (pathology) Any of several acute infectious diseases of humans and domestic animals, caused by the Vibrio cholerae bacterium through ingestion of contaminated water or food, usually marked by severe gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.
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Improved water testing capacity has been introduced to check for cholera and other waterborne diseases.
In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on.
Even non-medical people are aware that cholera is an abominable disease whose source is filth.
The arrival of Asiatic cholera in Europe in 1830, against which quarantines proved singularly ineffective, heralded the demise of the system.
A number of serious diseases afflict the population, including malaria, tuberculosis, and cholera.
In Liberia, the major health issue is infectious diseases, including yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, polio and malaria.

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