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  • Cholera pandemic has a single global source (Bay of Bengal)

    08/31/2011 11:27:34 AM PDT · by decimon · 8 replies
    BBC ^ | August 25, 2011 | Hamish Pritchard
    A major cholera pandemic has spread in at least three waves from a single global source: the Bay of Bengal.A study in Nature reveals cholera's spread over the last 60 years into Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, continent-hopping on long-haul flights. The research by a team from Cambridge's Sanger Institute showed the infection is evolving, with the newest waves showing antibiotic resistance. A UK expert said it was "a scandal" cholera was still affecting people. Cholera is a bacterial infection of the intestine that causes diarrhoea. It affects 3-5m people annually in 56 countries, killing between100,000 and 150,000. If...