Cholera

Cholera

acute intestinal, anthroponotic infection caused by bacteria of the species Vibrio cholerae. It is characterized by a fecal-oral mechanism of infection, damage to the small intestine, watery diarrhea, vomiting, rapid loss of fluid and electrolytes by the body with the development of various degrees of dehydration up to hypovolemic shock and death. It refers to particularly dangerous infections.

It spreads, as a rule, in the form of epidemics. Endemic foci are located in Africa, South America, India and Southeast Asia.