Is Cholera a virus or a bacteria??

CHOLERA is caused by bacteria and it is not a virus. -





Acute bacterial infection with Vibrio cholerae, causing massive diarrhea with severe depletion of body fluids and salts. (See bacterial disease.) Cholera often occurs in epidemics, spreading in contaminated water or food. The bacteria secrete a toxin that causes the diarrhea, which along with vomiting leads to dehydration, with severe muscle cramps and intense thirst. Stupor and coma may precede death by shock. With fluid and salt replacement, the disease passes in two to seven days, sooner if antibiotics are taken the first day. Prevention requires good sanitation, especially clean drinking water.-

Is Cholera a virus or a bacteria??
bacteria, it can be gotten rid of!
Reply:Bacteria
Reply:Cholera is a water-borne disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which is typically ingested by drinking contaminated water, or by eating improperly cooked fish, especially shellfish. This phenomenon was first described in a scientific manner by the Portuguese physician Garcia de Orta in Colóquios dos Simples e Drogas da India (1563). Europe witnessed several epidemics in the 19th century, but since then the disease is mostly seen in developing countries, due to poor water infrastructure.
Reply:bacteria, Gram neg
Reply:bacteria
Reply:It's a bacteria





Cholera is an acute, diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The infection is often mild or without symptoms, but sometimes it can be severe. Approximately one in 20 infected persons has severe disease characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps. In these persons, rapid loss of body fluids leads to dehydration and shock. Without treatment, death can occur within hours.
Reply:Cholera is caused by the enterotoxin elaborated by Vibrio cholerae, a gram-negative bacillus. The organism proliferates in the lumen of the small intestine and causes profuse watery diarrhea, rapid dehydration, and (if fluids are not restored) shock and death within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms.





Enterotoxins of other vibrios (for instance V. parahemolyticus) also cause diarrhea and mimic cholera, but symptoms are milder.

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