Historical and contemporary views on cholera transmission: are we repeating past discussions? Can lessons learned from cholera be applied to COVID-19?
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Historical and contemporary views on cholera transmission : are we repeating past discussions? Can lessons learned from cholera be applied to COVID-19? / Jensen, Peter Kjær Mackie; Grant, Stephen Lawrence; Perner, Mads Linnet; Hossain, Zenat Zebin; Ferdous, Jannatul; Sultana, Rebeca; Almeida, Sara; Phelps, Matthew; Begum, Anowara.
In: A P M I S. Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica (Online), Vol. 129, No. 7, 2021, p. 421-430.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Historical and contemporary views on cholera transmission
T2 - are we repeating past discussions? Can lessons learned from cholera be applied to COVID-19?
AU - Jensen, Peter Kjær Mackie
AU - Grant, Stephen Lawrence
AU - Perner, Mads Linnet
AU - Hossain, Zenat Zebin
AU - Ferdous, Jannatul
AU - Sultana, Rebeca
AU - Almeida, Sara
AU - Phelps, Matthew
AU - Begum, Anowara
N1 - © 2021 APMIS. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Cholera, a devastating diarrheal disease that caused several global pandemics in the last centuries, may share some similarities with the new COVID-19. Cholera has affected many populations in history and still remains a significant burden in developing countries. The main transmission route was thought to be predominantly through contaminated drinking water. However, revisiting the historical data collected during the Copenhagen 1853 cholera outbreak allowed us to re-evaluate the role of drinking-water transmission in a city-wide outbreak and reconsider some critical transmission routes, which have been neglected since the time of John Snow. Recent empirical and cohort data from Bangladesh also strengthened the dynamic potentiality of other transmission routes (food, fomite, fish, flies) for transmitting cholera. Analyzing this particular nature of the cholera disease transmission, this paper will describe how the pattern of transmission routes are similar to COVID-19 and how the method of revisiting old data can be used for further exploration of new and known diseases.
AB - Cholera, a devastating diarrheal disease that caused several global pandemics in the last centuries, may share some similarities with the new COVID-19. Cholera has affected many populations in history and still remains a significant burden in developing countries. The main transmission route was thought to be predominantly through contaminated drinking water. However, revisiting the historical data collected during the Copenhagen 1853 cholera outbreak allowed us to re-evaluate the role of drinking-water transmission in a city-wide outbreak and reconsider some critical transmission routes, which have been neglected since the time of John Snow. Recent empirical and cohort data from Bangladesh also strengthened the dynamic potentiality of other transmission routes (food, fomite, fish, flies) for transmitting cholera. Analyzing this particular nature of the cholera disease transmission, this paper will describe how the pattern of transmission routes are similar to COVID-19 and how the method of revisiting old data can be used for further exploration of new and known diseases.
U2 - 10.1111/apm.13102
DO - 10.1111/apm.13102
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33645840
VL - 129
SP - 421
EP - 430
JO - A P M I S. Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica
JF - A P M I S. Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica
SN - 0903-4641
IS - 7
ER -
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