Cholera is caused by a comma-shaped bacterium called Vibrio Choleras. The

microorganism is transmitted by water or food that has been contaminated

with the feces of people who have the disease. Cholera occurs when Vibrio

Cholera enters the intestines and releases Cholera toxin. The toxin causes

the intestine to secrete large amounts of water and salt. Because the

intestine cannot absorb the water and salt at the rate they are secreted,

the patient suffers severe diarrhea. This loss of fluid causes severe

dehydration and changes in the body chemistry. If untreated, the illness

can lead to shock and eventually death. With proper treatment, Cholera

lasts only a few days. Prevention of Cholera requires adequate sanitation

roughly 250,000 who got the disease. In the worldÕs last huge epidemic in

dayÕs journey on foot, horse, or bicycle. The clinic is only likely to

percent. Cholera has killed 2,000 people while 40,000 children under 5 die

spread eastward into PeruÕs jungle, volunteer doctors from Lima began to

in treating it. Two thousand people have died; less than 1 percent of the

The first cases of Cholera appeared. The bacteria was probably brought by

ea year from diarrhea in Peru. On January 23, 1991, the inevitable happened.

course. Truly astonishing, however, is the Peruvian governmentÕs success

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prepared, because diarrhea and vomiting can kill cholera victims within a

water and sewers in Peru than practically anywhere else in the hemisphere

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