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A woman with cholera being treated by nurses at St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti, 2010.
The El Tor biotype of the cholera bacterium was first described in 1905 by the German physician E. Gotschlich. This identification occurred during the sixth cholera pandemic at a quarantine station located at El Tor in the Sinai Desert, which had been established to monitor pilgrims returning from Mecca.1