CHOLERA is the potentially deadly condition caused by drinking dirty water or eating contaminated food.
Cholera is a bacterial infection of the small intestine that is spread through dirty water and food that has been contaminated with an infected person’s faeces.
There also tends to be outbreaks after natural disasters or during a humanitarian crisis, where people are forced to live in cramped conditions with little access to clean drinking water.
What are the symptoms of cholera?
If at this point the disease isn’t treated, the symptoms will get worse and a person can become severely dehydrated very quickly.
The most common treatment for cholera patients is an oral rehydration solution, which can prevent a person becoming too dehydrated.
Is there a vaccine against cholera?
For everyone over the age of six, two doses of the vaccine should be given six weeks apart and at least one week before travelling to an infected area.
They are also putting in place the development of piped water supplies and safe sewage disposal in countries where there is poor sanitation.
For travellers, the NHS has issued advice on what they can do to prevent cholera as well as travellers’ diarrhoea.

What is cholera?
CHOLERA is the potentially deadly condition caused by drinking dirty water or eating contaminated food.
Here’s all you need to know about the bacterial infection caused by poor sanitation.
There also tends to be outbreaks after natural disasters or during a humanitarian crisis, where people are forced to live in cramped conditions with little access to clean drinking water.
However, there have not been any cases of cholera that have originated in England and Wales for over 100 years.
If at this point the disease isn’t treated, the symptoms will get worse and a person can become severely dehydrated very quickly.
The most common treatment for cholera patients is an oral rehydration solution, which can prevent a person becoming too dehydrated.
Is there a vaccine against cholera?
For everyone over the age of six, two doses of the vaccine should be given six weeks apart and at least one week before travelling to an infected area.
They are also putting in place the development of piped water supplies and safe sewage disposal in countries where there is poor sanitation.

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(CNN)Millions of people in Bihar, India, are showing symptoms of arsenic poisoning, which can be linked to cancer, due to consumption of contaminated drinking water.
The state of Bihar, in eastern India, is one of the country’s most impoverished states.
World Health Organization guidelines state that the permissible limit of arsenic in drinking water is 10 ppb, while the Indian government states it to be 50 ppb, five times higher.
Since 2004, Ghosh has tested 44,000 tubewells in Bihar and found that about 30% have water with arsenic concentration higher than 10 ppb.
In 2016, the Mahavir Cancer Institute registered as many as 23,000 new cancer patients, and Ghosh found that many, though not all, of these cases were linked to exposure to this toxin.
"When I joined the cancer hospital, I started checking blood, hair and nail samples of cancer patients and found they have very clear-cut symptoms of arsenic poisoning," Ghosh said.
Arsenic has been linked to various forms of cancer in India, the most common being skin cancer, followed by cancers of the bladder, kidney and lung, says Majumdar.
But since then, millions of tubewells were installed in the Ganges delta, the International Agency for Research on Cancer says, to prevent gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea from surface water.
People soon became dependent on groundwater.
These changes mean arsenic — which previously occurred in a relatively harmless insoluble conjugate with iron called arsenopyrite — then split due to overuse, contaminating the groundwater with a soluble ionic form of arsenic that has since been consumed by millions of people for decades.

Boil-Water Advisory Issued for Southwest Shirley.
The Suffolk County Water Authority has issued a boil-water advisory for the next 48 hours for southwest Shirley following a water main break on William Floyd Parkway and an extended shutdown of the water main serving this area.
Harmful microbes in drinking water can cause diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms and may pose a special health risk for infants, some elderly, and people with severely compromised immune systems.
But these symptoms are not just caused by microbes in drinking water.
If any of these symptoms are experienced and they persist, medical advice should be sought.
Door-to-door notifications are being conducted in the area roughly south of Fawn Place and west of William Floyd Parkway, and also on a number of streets just to the east of William Floyd Parkway.
Water samples are being collected to ensure the safety of water supplied to the area as a precaution.
For more information, residents are advised to call the Suffolk County Water Authority Call Center at 631-698-9500.
The Suffolk County Water Authority is an independent public-benefit corporation operating under the authority of the Public Authorities Law of the State of New York.
Serving approximately 1.2 million Suffolk County residents, the Authority operates without taxing power on a not-for-profit basis.