The site at Downingtown is close to Duffy's Cut, where another mass grave of Irish immigrants was previously found.

According to WHO representative to Namibia Richard Banda, cholera has been treated successfully. The first pandemic or global epidemic was recorded in the 19th century.

Richard Cash, championed ‘simple’ therapy to overcome cholera, dies at 83 An oral rehydration solution of sugar, salt and water, promoted by Dr. Cash and others, helped save more than 50 ...

Cholera still takes its toll on people today with between 21,000 to 143,000 annual deaths according to the World Health Organization. Like Covid-19, cholera came from the east.

Initially, in 1849, cholera was noticed in the sea ports of Ireland, having been brought here from Britain. The trail of this epidemic can be traced back to 1845 when it broke out in Sri Lanka ...

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In the 19th century much of humanity cleaned its water and nearly eliminated many devastating water-borne diseases such as cholera.

A bloody 19th-century health craze almost drove these creatures extinct European medicinal leeches were famous for their popular purpose: treatment for everything from cancer to mental illness ...

There is no evidence that the Maltese islands suffered from outbreaks of cholera before the 19th century. It is true that, in 1745, in his manuscript treatise titled De Morbidus Abdominis ...

Thank goodness that the novel coronavirus is not the scourge cholera was in the 19th century. But if, like cholera, it was born out of climate change, then there will for sure be more to come.