Diseases in the Industrial Revolution

Cholera

Cholera is caused by bacteria called “Vibrio Cholerae”. It affects the intestines. You would get cholera if you drink water or eat food with Vibrio Cholarae. Living conditions during the Industrial Revolution were unsanitary so people were probably infected with cholera when they drank the dirty water from the water pumps.

Symptoms of cholera include diarrhea,vomiting, and dehydration,  and they appear from a few hours to five days after the person is infected. You would have to be treated with oral rehydration therapy if you got the disease. If cholera is not treated, infected people would die in several days.

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Typhoid

Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease, caused by Salmonella typhi. It is transmitted through the ingestion of food or drink contaminated by the faeces or urine of infected people.

Symptoms usually develop 1–3 weeks after exposure, and may be mild or severe. They include high fever, malaise, headache, constipation or diarrhoea, rose-coloured spots on the chest, and enlarged spleen and liver. Healthy carrier state may follow acute illness.

Typhoid fever can be treated with antibiotics. However, resistance to common antimicrobials is widespread. Healthy carriers should be excluded from handling food.

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