PREVENTION OF CHOLERA.doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)95066-XJohnWayteSDOSLancet
BENNETT 1 has suggested that cholera toxin stimulates the release or synthesis of prostaglandins (PG) which, in turn, interact with the cyclic 3′,5′-adenosine monophosphate system to produce diarrhoea. PGs might also be involved in the diarrhoea associated with medullary carcinoma of the thyroid...
Chapter 1, on the history of the disease, concluded that the quirks of cholera are likely to continue to cause concern and despair as this pestiferous disease continues to menace much of the developing world, where at least 65% of the world's population lives. Since 1991 Latin America has ...
World Health Organization: Prevention and control of cholera outbreaks: WHO policy and recommendations. [http://www.who.int/cholera/technical/prevention/control/en/index.html].World Health Organization (2009c). Prevention and control of cholera outbreaks: WHO policy and recommendations. WHO position ...
the importance of building local capacity, the need for varying responses at different levels of scale, the need for improved inter- and intra-country co-ordination and information exchange, the importance of cultural belief systems and the impact of the media on the response to cholera outbreaks...
It may even be found that the cost of preventing a particular disease entirely is prohibitive when compared with the cost of treating each case and different methods of prevention deserve the same attention: in the case of an infectious disease, such as cholera, prevention by sanitary measures ...
Some people who have the cholera bacteria have very mild symptoms or none at all. For others, symptoms of cholera can begin as soon as a few hours or as long as 5 days after infection. Often, symptoms are mild. But sometimes they are very serious. ...
Furthermore, until recently, it has not been possible to implement public-health interventions in low-income countries to eliminate disease, and the prevention of cholera in travellers has been limited to restrictive guidelines. However, a vaccine against cholera is now available that has proven ...
Induction of serum vibriocidal antibodies by O-specific polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccines for prevention of cholera. In: Wachsmuth I K, Blake P A, Olsvik O, editors. Vibrio cholerae . Washington, D.C.: American Society for Microbiology; 1994. pp. 381–394....
A case of cholera is described in a patient who had toured India (Delhi, Agra and Jaipur). The woman developed severe vomiting and diarrhoea during her return flight from Delhi to London. She needed intensive care for dehydration associated with profound metabolic acidosis, and renal failure. Sh...