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Cholera
A woman with cholera being treated by nurses at St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint-Marc,...
Sophia Paris—MINUSTAH/Getty Images)
X-ray protein crystallography in molecular biology
The structure of the cholera enterotoxin, shown in a false-color image obtained by...
Argonne National Laboratory
Oral rehydration therapy
Typically used in the treatment of diarrheal diseases such as cholera, oral rehydration...
James Heilman, MD
Cholera epidemic of 1873
A Mississippi River steamer crowded with sick men, women, and children during the...
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
Broad Street cholera outbreak
In 1854 English physician John Snow traced a cholera outbreak in London to a contaminated...
From On the Mode of Communication of Cholera by John Snow, 1855. Image enhanced by UCLA Department of Epidemiology.
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