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Fears of cholera coming. Graetz 1883 © Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Panic over Ebola echoes the 19th-century fear of cholera

On October 19 an inspector sent north from London to Sunderland reported a long-awaited arrival: the first British case of cholera. It was 1831 and as part of a second pandemic cholera had again progressed…
Don’t drink the water. EPA/Marco Dormino/UN

Haitian cholera victims could soon bring the UN to court

In October 2010, a cholera outbreak began in Haiti for the first time in more than 100 years. The strain that was brought into Haiti has been traced to a region in Nepal from which a UN peacekeeping contingent…

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