AT
SubjectsCommunity MedicineCommunicable DiseaseCholera

Cholera

ModerateCommunity Medicine · Communicable Disease
This topic, connected — one hub, every surface
CholeraCommunicable Disease📘 Notesread MCQs40 Qs🖼 Imagesvisual📜 PYQsrecall📝 Test20 Q💡 Pearlscards
Spokes
Notes preview

Cholera is an acute, severe, secretory (toxigenic) diarrhoeal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, characterised by painless profuse "rice-water" stools that can kill a previously healthy adult within hours through hypovolaemic shock. It remains a sentinel marker of poor sanitation and unsafe water, and is a perennial favourite in Community Medicine for its El Tor biotype, the WHO ORS formula, and outbreak control. H

Mastery
48%

Practice to build mastery on this hub.

Related topics