Cholera
Cholera is a really bad infection. It gives you diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration.
The infection starts by ingesting food or water that has been contaminated with the
bacterium Vibrio Cholera. From a few hours to five days after exposure to the
bacterium, the vomiting and diarrhea begin. The bacterium produces a toxin that
speeds the passage of fluid from the blood stream into the intestines. More than
a pint of fluid is lost every hour. If the fluid is not replaced, in a few hours the
patient will die. Once the diarrhea and vomiting begins that is when the infection
begins. People say the disease spreads through the continents of Asia, Africa,
and the Mediterranean and Gulf Coast of North America and South America.
The disease Cholera is very rare now.
L.W.
6th Grade Student