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Where did the seventh cholera pandemic begin in 1961?
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A woman with cholera being treated by nurses at St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti, 2010.
The seventh cholera pandemic began in 1961 on the island of Celebes in Indonesia. While earlier pandemics typically originated in the delta region of the Ganges River, this specific outbreak marked a departure from that historical pattern.1
It is important to note that while the pandemic's initial geographic emergence is identified as Celebes, scientific research tracing the origins of modern Vibrio cholerae isolates has linked the ancestor of these strains to the Bay of Bengal.2