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Cholera affects an estimated 2.8 million people worldwide, and causes approximately 95,000 deaths a year (uncertainty range: 21,000–143,000) as of 2015. [86] [87] This occurs mainly in the developing world. [88] In the early 1980s, death rates are believed to have still been higher than three million a year. [19]
This was the first widely used vaccine that was made in a laboratory. [16] Later use showed this early cholera vaccine to be ineffective. [30] In 1884, Spanish physician Jaume Ferran i Clua developed a live vaccine he had isolated from cholera patients in Marseilles, and used it on over 30,000 individuals in Valencia during that year's epidemic.
Tetracycline, sold under various brand names, is an antibiotic in the tetracyclines family of medications, used to treat a number of infections, [3] including acne, cholera, brucellosis, plague, malaria, and syphilis. [3] It is available in oral and topical formulations. [4] [5] Common side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, rash, and loss of ...
In such places, cholera infects between one and four million people every year, per the World Health Organization, and contributes to some 21,000 to 143,000 deaths annually.
The first six months of the year have seen 249,793 cholera cases and 2,137 deaths reported from 25 countries, compared to 166,442 cases and 69 deaths in the same period in 2023, according to the WHO.
Cutter Laboratories was a family-owned pharmaceutical company located in Berkeley, California, founded by Edward Ahern Cutter in 1897.Cutter's early products included anthrax vaccine, hog cholera (swine fever) virus, and anti-hog cholera serum—and eventually a hog cholera vaccine.
FILE - Health workers treat cholera patients at the Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe central Malawi on Jan. 11, 2023. Malawi’s cholera outbreak has now claimed more than 1,000 lives by Tuesday, Jan ...
[37] [41] Worldwide, diarrhoeal disease, caused by cholera and many other pathogens, is the second-leading cause of death for children under the age of 5 and at least 120,000 deaths are estimated to be caused by cholera each year. [42] [43] In 2002, the WHO deemed that the case fatality ratio for cholera was about 3.95%. [37]