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What is cholera? »Its definition and meaning

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It comes from the Latin Cholera which means Bile, in ancient Greek it is Kholèra from a derivative of Kholè which is equal to Bile in its translation, it is a word that is also given to the feeling of rage or anger since it was formerly believed that that feeling or discomfort of character was produced by some type of affection, they believed a type of disease to always live angry.

He is also told that getting into a rage is the feeling of excessive rage of a person, which comes from an action on a very great anger that becomes violent, that is, it can reach demonstrative actions of outburst against another human being or object, causing real damage by this.

Being a reference of a type of disease that can become painful, with acute diarrhea and that even with treatment becomes very acute and its cause is bacteriological.

The bacterium that produces it is called Vibrio Cholerae, it affects people of any age but they are frequent in infants, causing the loss of many body fluids to lead to severe dehydration in a short time, which can be risky for the human being causing immobility and death.

It can begin with a simple stomach upset that, when intensified, affects even the pulse, sweating and in some cases loss of consciousness, gives cramps in the muscles and pains due to low potassium in the body, numbing the legs. This bacterium is housed in the intestine of a person and occurs because they previously ate fruits, food or food contaminated with feces, whether of animal or human origin, when exposed to people who suffer from the virus and share cutlery, glasses, eat the same food or failing that, the vomit of the same infected person, by not maintaining proper hand hygiene, especially after defecation and where the patient is.

It can cause death without good treatment or if it is very advanced, it is estimated that three out of every fifty people die although these figures can reach more if it becomes an epidemic, for this reason precautions such as boiling water, washing either foods with vinegar or chlorine, especially legumes and fruits, and maintain adequate hygiene at all times, such as maintaining the medical check-up.