Cholera
Cholera is an acute, intestinal, bacterial infection, which today appears mainly in developing countries in Africa and Asia, and, most recently, in Latin America.Cholera can be successfully treated using antibiotics and/or oral/intravenous re-hydration. During the 19th century; however, the medical community had not yet discovered antibiotics and the majority of people who contracted cholera die. Cholera was and is one of mans most devastating diseases. For centuries, cholera was confined to India, but in the early 19th century it began to spread to other parts of Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Then, in the 1970s and in the 1980s cholera epidemics occured in the Middle East and Africa. There were also several localized outbreaks of cholera in Europe.