GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cholera, Malaria, Collagen
27 Mar 2016
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It is an infecious disease that causes severe diarrhea. Can lead to dehydraion and even death if untreated. It is caused by eaing food or drinking water contaminated with bacterium called vibrio cholera. In the olden day"s no one really knew what caused this disease. Man named john snow irst found out the cause of cholera (known as the father of epidemiology- the study of the spread of diseases) He was a london england physician and he produced a map that tracked. In a mater of hours you have risks of losing 10% of your body weight. Over decades there has been 6 major cases of collagen. Some people don"t get infected by cholera because of there geneics. Africa is one the major countries at risk. Bezal gete made the largest engineering process in the enire world in the 19th centuries. He supervised the 12 thousand miles of sewage trunks that were built to avoid this issue.
