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8 unusual facts about Cholera


Baeda Maryam I

Cholera (or some other pestilence) broke out among his men, depressing him further, resulting in his withdrawal to Tigray.

Bhujakhia Pir

The legend tells that Hajrat Swale Mohammad, named afterwards as ‘Bhujakhia Pir’ had come to Orissa in the 16th century and devoted himself to the service of mankind, especially to the service of Cholera victims.

Dando Drilling

The Company was founded by a Mr Duke and a Mr Ockenden who in 1867 sank the first Tubewell to ensure a clean water supply in Littlehampton, England, following an outbreak of Cholera.

Distin family

While critically hailed, their tour was plagued by illness, a Cholera epidemic that scared away the audience, and unrelated riots.

Dobe'a

Cholera (or some other pestilence) broke out among his men, depressing him further, resulting in his withdrawal to Tigray.

History of the Jews in Cincinnati

It is known as the Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati, this plot, which was afterward enlarged, was used as the cemetery of the Jewish community till the year 1849, after the Cholera epidemic.

Kalanderpur

A sufi saint Shah Qualander to whom this village was dedicated rescued Dara's army from Cholera epidemic during returning from one of his expedition.The culture of this village is mix.The village is situated in between Jaunpur-Azamgarh and Varanasi-Azamgarh main road.Both main road is two km away from this village.

Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Imus

Moreno was sent to be the Administrator of the Hacienda de Imus and to help the parish priest Fray Jose Maria Learte, ORSA with the Cholera epidemic that greatly affected the Heacienda.


2007 Central Luzon hog cholera outbreak

An outbreak of classical swine fever (hog cholera) in the Philippine region of Central Luzon, particularly the provinces of Pampanga and Bulacan occurred in mid-2007, the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) confirmed.

Alexander Tweedie

He was joint-author with Charles Gaselee of A Practical Treatise on Cholera (1832), and was the original planner of the Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine (London, 1831–5, 4 vols.), of which he was one of the editors.

Ambrosius of Georgia

Soon the Catholicos Patriarch Leonid died of cholera, and, on October 14, 1921, Ambrosius was elected as his successor.

Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto

During the 1854 Crimean War rampant in Europe coming from India by British ships, a violent epidemic cholera which soon transcends the boundaries of Alps and upsets the whole of the peninsula, reaching high rates of mortality in the provinces of Messina and Palermo.

Cefn Golau

Cefn Golau is a disused cholera cemetery situated on a narrow mountain ridge in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, and located between Rhymney and Tredegar in south-east Wales.

Chapleau Ojibway First Nation

Chapleau Ojibwe forefathers were not, however, signatories to the Robinson Treaties, partly because Benjamin Robinson did not take the time to meet with inland First Nation communities and partly because inland First Nation leaders were reluctant to travel as a result of a cholera outbreak in 1849.

Charles Ingersoll

Charles Fortescue Ingersoll (1791–1832), Massachusetts-born Canadian businessman and political figure who served in War of 1812 and represented Oxford County in Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 until his death from cholera

Charles Jacque

Fleeing the Cholera epidemics that besieged Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Jacque relocated to Barbizon in 1849 with Millet.

Chlorodyne

It was invented in the 19th century by a Dr. John Collis Browne, a doctor in the British Indian Army; its original purpose was in the treatment of cholera.

Cholera vaccine

WC-rBS (marketed as "Dukoral") is a monovalent inactivated vaccine containing killed whole cells of V. cholerae O1 plus additional recombinant cholera toxin B subunit.

Craig-y-Nos Castle

It was said that his family were cursed thanks to their bloodline relationship with the Dutch Overbeek family of Calcutta and Cape Town, with cholera taking his younger son in 1851, and the deaths of his wife and younger daughter before he died in 1862.

David Nalin

Nalin had the key insight that Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) would work if the volume of solution patients drank matched the volume of their fluid losses, and that this would drastically reduce or completely replace the only current treatment for cholera, intravenous therapy.

Ecological study

The study by John Snow regarding a cholera outbreak in London is considered the first ecological study to solve a health issue.

Filippo Pacini

Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacillus Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries thirty years later.

George Scott Railton

His father and mother both died on 8 November 1864 at Peel, Isle of Man, probably of cholera.

Giovanni Defendi

A native of Cosenza, she had lost her parents in a cholera epidemic and had been adopted by the family of the internationalist Tito Zanardelli.

Grande Hotel Beira

According to the local Red Cross, there is a high risk of cholera, diarrhoea, HIV/AIDS, malaria and scabies in the Grande Hotel.

Graves Haughton

He died of cholera in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud, where he had resided towards the end of his life, on 28 August 1849.

Haydarpaşa Cemetery

The cemetery was first established for British soldiers from the Crimean War, who died mostly as the result of cholera epidemic in the first organized military hospital in modern history created by Florence Nightingale.

Hobson's choice

In The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, Kitty Fane is described by Charles Townsend as facing Hobson's choice after she is given an ultimatum by her husband Walter to either accompany him to cholera-infested Mei-Tan-Fu, or convince her lover Townsend to divorce his wife Dorothy so he can marry Kitty, which Walter knows in hindsight is unlikely because the divorce will ruin Townsend's chances of political advancement.

Hybrid genome assembly

This approach was used to sequence the genome of a strain of Vibrio cholerae that was responsible for a cholera outbreak in Haiti.

James Francillon

Francillon, who was married and had issue, died at Lausanne of cholera 3 September 1866.

John Minter Morgan

Near his own residence on Ham Common he founded in 1849 the National Orphan Home, to which he admitted children left destitute by the ravages of the cholera.

Joseph Dombey

During his stay in Concepción the cholera broke out, and at once Dombey offered his services and was appointed physician-in-chief of the city, which office he resigned in 1783 when the epidemic had passed.

Love in the Time of Cholera

In the How I Met Your Mother episode Farhampton, Ted reads Love in the Time of Cholera in the few minutes leading to meeting The Mother.

In the How I Met Your Mother episode The Magician's Code, Ted describes Love in the Time of Cholera as his favorite book.

Manoel Island

In 1643 Jean Paul Lascaris, Grandmaster of the Knights of Malta, constructed a quarantine hospital (lazzaretto) on the island, in an attempt to control the periodic influx of plague and cholera on board visiting ships.

Martin Kalbfleisch

At the age of eighteen embarked with an American captain to engage in trading in Sumatra, but returned on account of cholera.

Max Predöhl

Richard J. Evans: Tod in Hamburg: Stadt, Gesellschaft und Politik in den Cholera-Jahren 1830-1910, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1996.

Metin Kaçan

Metin Kaçan (November 15, 1961 – January 6, 2013) was a Turkish author, who is best known for his novel Ağır Roman (Cholera Street), which was translated into German (Kaçan 2003), and a movie (Ağır Roman), directed by Mustafa Altıoklar (1999), was based on it.

Nino Bixio

On 16 December 1873, he died of cholera at Aceh Bay in Sumatra en route for Batavia (modern day Jakarta), where he was slated to take command of a commercial expedition.

Papplewick Pumping Station

The link between water supply and water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid was established in the 1850s, and the need to supply clean filtered water resulted in a series of projects, which steadily moved further to the north of the city.

Paul Sébillot

His father Pierre Sébillot was cited for his devotion during the cholera epidemic of 1832 at Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, and became mayor of Matignon in 1848.

Plant manufactured pharmaceuticals

Increasing the need for agricultural societies in developing countries will help certain countries to export and make trade alliance with other countries and with the development of the therapies that can control diseases like Cholera and HIV/AIDS.

Ponduri Venkata Ramana Rao

He travelled on an A.T.C.M. Fellowship in 1958-1959 to Syracuse, New York and Virus Labs in Albany, New York, U.S.A where he worked on Yaws, Endemic typhus and Cholera.

RainCatcher

In 2010 RainCatcher partnered with J/P Haitian Relief Organization to help deliver more than 9,900 cholera-eliminating portable clean-water systems to Haiti immediately following that year's devastating earthquake.

Robert James Shuttleworth

From the autumn of that year until the end of 1832 he studied in the medical faculty of the university of Edinburgh, walking the hospital during the first outbreak of cholera, making a vacation tour in the highlands, and helping his elder stepbrother Blake on his estate at Renville in the west of Ireland during the famine of 1831 and 1832.

Robert S. James

Shortly after arriving in California in August 1850, he contracted cholera and died on August 18, 1850, in the Hangtown Gold Camp, later known as Placerville.

Shah M. Faruque

Shah Mohammad Faruque (Bengali: শাহ এম. ফারুক) (Jessore District, 1956) is a Bangladeshi scientist and a leading researcher in Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium which causes the epidemic diarrheal disease Cholera.

Water supply and sanitation in Gibraltar

The new system proved its worth only a few weeks after it was installed when cholera broke out in the town of La Línea de la Concepción just across the border with Spain.

William Frederick Chambers

His only contribution to literature was a series of papers on cholera, printed in The Lancet on 10 and 17 February and 3 March 1849.

William H. Maynard

Maynard died on August 28, 1832, of cholera while preparing in New York City to attend the session of the Court for the Correction of Errors (then the highest court in the State, composed of the Chancellor, the Supreme Court justices and the State Senate); and was buried at the Hamilton College Cemetery in Clinton, NY.


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