Author(s):
Akusa Yuma Darlington
Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease due to a highly motile, curved gram negative rod, vibrio cholerae, and it can result in severe and rapidly progressive dehydration and death in a matter of hours unless quickly treated. As a result, “cholera gravis” is a much feared disease, especially when it occurs in epidemics or in worldwide pandemics associated with high mortality rates.