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Yes, I imagine a lovely bloom of Vibrio cholerae is likely to arise from mass flooding of this sort. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/1/13-0428_article htt
by photochemsyn 4y ago
Yes, I imagine a lovely bloom of Vibrio cholerae is likely to arise from mass flooding of this sort.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/1/13-0428_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/1/13-0428_article
> "In August 2010, Pakistan experienced major floods and a subsequent cholera epidemic. To clarify the population dynamics and transmission of Vibrio cholerae in Pakistan, we sequenced the genomes of all V. cholerae O1 El Tor isolates and compared the sequences to a global collection of 146 V. cholerae strains..."
- pvaldes 4y ago> I imagine a lovely bloom of Vibrio cholerae is likely to arise from mass flooding Fixable. All European capitals had cholera epidemics in their past. Scientists like John Snow sweated blood and tears and failed and failed again until fixing it. The Pakistani government could find useful to adopt the solutions that the evil UK developed 200 years ago and are freely available for everybody. Not need to reinvent the wheel anymore. In any case they had twelve years to do something about it, so are probably much better prepared now. In a desert I would chose having water over dry-to-the-bone land, all the time. Water is money