And that was the last time that London has seen a cholera outbreak since.

This is exemplified by an outbreak of cholera that claimed more than 26 lives in the Lungi, Port Loko and Freetown areas in July August 2004.

Most of the information that we collected on the cholera outbreak didn't come from testing water it came from forms like this, which documented all the people we failed to help.

Main topic Cholera .

The presence of such a large group of youths, including ex combatants, posed a considerable security threat and, during the first week of August, an outbreak of cholera resulted in at least 29 deaths.

The United Nations disaster management capacity was confirmed by two major events that occurred during the year the drought threat in South Kivu and the outbreak of floods and cholera epidemics in Province Oriental.

Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10 minute tour of i The Ghost Map i , his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society.

Snow lived near there, heard about the outbreak, and in this amazing act of courage went directly into the belly of the beast because he thought an outbreak that concentrated could actually potentially end up convincing people that, in fact, the real menace of cholera was in the water supply and not in the air.

He killed more people than cholera.

Measles outbreak.

No doubts, it's smallpox, cholera or leprosy!

(b) Malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, in particular cholera

213. Meningitis outbreak.

So what ended up happening, actually, is they ended up increasing the outbreaks of cholera because, as we now know, cholera is actually in the water.

And cholera was really the great killer of this period.

Would adding cholera to the water be a good idea?

Unfortunately, for Southern Africa, cholera and dysentery constitute a serious threat.

33. Cholera and diarrhoea are reported in several parts of Somalia.

To date, 14 cases of cholera have been confirmed in Mogadishu.

(h) Cholera in the camps for refugees and internally displaced people

Other diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid or cholera were also rife.

147. The Government had to deal with a cholera epidemic in March.

I think it was only cholera that she didn't come down with.

That has sparked cholera epidemics in ports along the world and has led to increased concentration on trying to make sure shipping doesn't move these vectors of cholera around the world.

In flood and cholera prone areas, UNICEF continued a mass chlorination programme to prevent the spread of that killer disease, and provided oral rehydration salts and essential drugs to treat cholera victims.

Irrespective of whether the hazard is meteorological, such as a cyclone, epidemiological, such as a cholera outbreak, or hydrological, such as a drought, Southern Africa apos s most disaster prone communities are those already vulnerable due to poverty, isolation, and dependence on degraded land and location in crowded informal settlements.

It took much longer than sometimes we like to think in this story, but by 1866, when the next big cholera outbreak came to London, the authorities had been convinced in part because of this story, in part because of this map that in fact the water was the problem.

And that is the species of organism that is responsible for causing cholera.

Strengthen global disease outbreak surveillance and response capacity by increasing resources for the World Health Organization Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

Unfortunately, a cholera outbreak among soldiers of the fourth brigade, irregular payments of salaries and lack of food and other support for these troops have raised concerns regarding the lack of oversight and control of the integration of these brigades by the Transitional Government and the international partners on security sector reform.

And several others had been taken down with... Cholera from drinking the poisoned water.

After a crisis, how can we tell if water is safe to drink? Current tests are slow and complex, and the delay can be deadly, as in the cholera outbreak after Haiti's earthquake in 2010. TED Fellow Sonaar Luthra previews his design for a simple tool that quickly tests water for safety the Water Canary.

Indeed, an outbreak would be multiple Katrinas at once.

And eventually Snow made a map of the outbreak.

Eliminating the risks of an accidental outbreak of war

The outbreak lasted from December 1997 to January 1998.

(a) Preventing the outbreak of international and domestic conflicts

Cholera was reported in Haiti for the first time in over 50 years last October.

Preventive action and intensification of the struggle against malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, in particular cholera

On 26 December, a WHO convoy was looted of cholera supplies near the Afgoye area.

WHO also played a critical role in the control of the cholera and meningitis epidemics.

23. A new cholera epidemic occurred in December 1997 and spread from Merca to Mogadishu.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) delivered cholera treatment kits for 10,000 people to the area.

For the outbreak of hostilities read incidents of hostile acts

And then on one day, August 28th of 1854, a young child, a five month old girl whose first name we don't know, we know her only as Baby Lewis, somehow contracted cholera, came down with cholera at 40 Broad Street.