Epidemiological Aspects of Cholera El Tor Outbreak in a Non-Endemic Area

Cohen, J.; Klasmer, R.; Ghalayini, H.; Schwartz, T.; Pridan, Daniel; Davies, A.M.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(71)92056-3

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“…It is commonly taught that a third period of the seventh pandemic arrived with the large-scale and explosive outbreaks of cholera that began in the Middle East and West Africa in 1970. By 1970, El Tor had reached the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, and Jordan and a limited outbreak was recorded in Israel (62). At this time El Tor Inaba was also resurgent in Iran and the southern Soviet Union.…”

Section: Cholera Pandemicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Seafood may acquire the organism from environmental sources and may serve as a vehicle in both endemic and epidemic disease, particularly if it is uncooked or only partially cooked (14,31,78,107,223,257,260,464). There are also data suggesting that vegetables irrigated with untreated sewage can harbor and transmit V. cholerae O1 (62,241). Food within households (or institutions [439]) may be contaminated by food handlers (168,425), or water used in preparation of the food may contain the organism (as has been suggested in an outbreak of cholera that occurred on a U.S. Gulf Coast oil rig [196]).…”

Section: Vehicles Of Transmissionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cholera

1995

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Despite more than a century of study, cholera still presents challenges and surprises to us. Throughout most of the 20th century, cholera was caused by Vibrio cholerae of the O1 serogroup and the disease was largely confined to Asia and Africa. However, the last decade of the 20th century has witnessed two major developments in the history of this disease. In 1991, a massive outbreak of cholera started in South America, the one continent previously untouched by cholera in this century. In 1992, an apparently new pandemic caused by a previously unknown serogroup of V. cholerae (O139) began in India and Bangladesh. The O139 epidemic has been occurring in populations assumed to be largely immune to V. cholerae O1 and has rapidly spread to many countries including the United States. In this review, we discuss all aspects of cholera, including the clinical microbiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical features of the disease. Special attention will be paid to the extraordinary advances that have been made in recent years in unravelling the molecular pathogenesis of this infection and in the development of new generations of vaccines to prevent it.

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1995

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“…In 1970, an outbreak of cholera in Israel was attributed to raw vegetables that had been irrigated with sewage water [41]. In Australia, lettuce that had been spray-irrigated with polluted creek water was reported to be the source of infection for one cholera case [7].…”

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Cholera: Foodborne transmission and its prevention

Estrada-García

Mintz

1996

Eur J Epidemiol

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The last several years have witnessed a tremendous increase in reported cholera cases across the globe. The explosive arrival of the seventh cholera pandemic in Latin American in 1991, dramatic epidemics of cholera on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia due to the newly recognized Vibrio cholerae O139 strain, and the often deadly presence of cholera among populations affected by political and social upheaval in Africa and Eastern Europe are evidence that many countries have failed to adopt effective measures for cholera prevention and control. Foodborne transmission of cholera has been well documented by epidemiologic investigations in nearly every continent, and its interruption is a critical component to any integrated programme for cholera prevention and control. We emphasize clear and effective guidelines for the prevention of foodborne cholera transmission that are drawn from a comprehensive review of relevant epidemiologic and laboratory data.

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“…Calculation of the incidence in different subquarters of Jerusalem indicated unequal attack rates, with no cases in the University campus and low rates in high socioeconomic areas, in contrast to heavy rates of 7-5 per ten thousand and even 10-0 or more per ten thousand in all the subquarters inhabited by the Arab population and in several subquarters of the Jewish side of the city whose residents belonged predominantly to the middle, middle lower and low social groups. Table 3 shows the cholera cases in the Jewish population by country of origin, additional information which later proved to be of value in the effort to elucidate the source and ways of spread of the infection (Cohen et al 1971). Cholera had a significantly higher incidence (13-5 per ten thousand) in Jews who immigrated from Asian and African countries than in those coming from Europe and America (1 6 per ten thousand).…”

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Cholera

Swartz

1972

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine

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