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Keep in mind Cholera is not an airborne disease. It comes from drinking and bathing in infected water supplies so it not usually spread from person to person. In countries with sanitary water systems such as the US, Cholera is very rare. However, it is common in most 3rd world countries. A WHO project seeks to reduce Cholera by 90% by 2030. Testing water supplies and teaching people how to avoid and treat contaminated water has proved very effective. Of course the ultimate solution is fixing the water and sewage systems.Haiti Cholera Mutations Could Lead to More Severe Disease
Strain is evolving to be more like virulent 1800s cholera
April 16, 2013 | By Marla Paul
CHICAGO --- The cholera strain that transferred to Haiti in 2010 has multiple toxin gene mutations that may account for the severity of disease and is evolving to be more like an 1800s version of cholera, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
The strain, “altered El Tor,” which emerged around 2000, is known to be more virulent and to cause more severe diarrhea and dehydration than earlier strains that had been circulating since the 1960s. This study reports the altered El Tor strain has acquired two additional signature mutations during the past decade that may further increase virulence.
In addition, these newly discovered signature mutations documented in the study further link the Haitian cholera epidemic to the strain from Nepal.
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That is very interesting! First real evidence I've read that cholera is worsening; the 1900 El Tor strain basically saved the world (still has a high death rate in Africa and wherever medical treatment is not modern, but otherwise only a few percent, if treatment is fast). Well, that's just wonderful.So Haiti is incubating it. So many severe diseases come through Haiti! AIDS came in that way, homosexual tourism from the U.S.