Original timeline of cholera, published on Wikipedia
'''[[Cholera]]''' is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium ''[[Vibrio cholerae]]''. It infects the small intestine. Cholera is still active throughout the world. Estimates from 2010 say that between three- and five million people get cholera every year, and 58,000–130,000 people die from the disease every year.{{cite journal | author = Lozano R, Naghavi M, ''et al.'' 2012 | title = Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | journal = Lancet | volume = 380 | issue = 9859 | pages = 2095–128 | pmid = 23245604 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61728-0 | date=Dec 2012}}
==Big picture==
{| class="sortable wikitable"
| ! Time period !! Key developments |
|---|
| 5th century BC |
| - |
| 1816–1923 |
| - |
| 1879–1883 |
| - |
| 1945–1948 |
| - |
| 1961 onwards |
| - |
| Present times |
| - |
| } |
==Full timeline== File:Percentage of cholera cases, 2000.png|thumb|Distribution of cholera cases, year 2000. *Does not include Bangla Desh, Pakistan, and other countries.{{cite web|title=Cholera statistics, 2000|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/speeches/colwell/rc02_hippocratic/sld018.htm|publisher=[[National Science Foundation]]|accessdate=19 December 2016}} File:Distribution of cholera deaths, 2000.png|thumb|Distribution of cholera deaths, year 2000. *Does not include Bangla Desh, Pakistan, and other countries. File:Cholera cases and deaths reported by India to the world health organization 1997-2006.png|thumb|Cholera cases and deaths reported by India to the world health organization 1997-2006.{{cite web|title=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|url=http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000300011|publisher=[[SciELO]]|accessdate=19 December 2016}} {{clear}} {| class="sortable wikitable"
| ! Year/Period !! Event type !! Event !! Present-day geographic location |
|---|
| 460–377 BCE |
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| 1563 |
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| 1817–1824 |
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| 1819 |
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| 1848 |
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| 1829–1851 |
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| 1830-1831 |
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| 1831 |
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| 1832 |
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| 1832 |
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| 1851–1938 |
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| 1852–1860 |
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| 1853 |
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| 1854 |
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| 1854 |
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| 1854 |
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| 1854 |
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| 1856–1857 |
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| 1863–1875 |
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| 1865 |
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| 1865–1866 |
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| 1869 |
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| 1879 |
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| 1881–1896 |
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| 1883 |
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| 1885 |
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| 1892 |
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| 1899–1923 |
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| 1923 |
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| 1935 |
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| 1935 |
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| 1948 |
| - |
| 1948 |
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| 1951–1959 |
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| 1952 |
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| 1961–present |
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| 1967 |
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| 1968 |
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| 1971–2012 |
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| 1974 |
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| 1976 |
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| 1979 |
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| 1984 |
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| 1984 |
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| 1986 |
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| 1986 |
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| 1990 (circa) |
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| 1990 (circa) |
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| 1991 |
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| 1992–1993 |
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| 1994 |
| countries, the highest ever number of countries in one year. |
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| 1998 |
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| 2001 |
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| 2005 |
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| 2007 |
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| 2007 |
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| 2008 |
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| 2009 |
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| 2009 |
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| 2009 |
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| 2010–present |
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| 2011 |
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| 2012 |
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| 2014–2015 |
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| 2015 |
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| 2016 |
| - |
|}
==See also==
- [[Timeline of malaria]]
- [[Timeline of global health]]
==References==
{{reflist|30em}}
{{Cholera}}
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[[Category:Cholera| ]] [[Category:Medicine timelines]]