Since COVID-19 engulfed the world two years ago, “unprecedented” has become something of a buzzword. Yet while the coronavirus has posed unique challenges at a time of deep global interconnectedness, pandemics are nothing new.
The COVID-19 pandemic is not even the only one we are experiencing. In much of the developing world, cholera outbreaks are proliferating.
Whereas SARS-CoV-2 is “novel,” cholera a water-borne diarrheal disease caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae is ancient, as is its history of widespread devastation. The current cholera pandemic is the world’s seventh since the early 19th century.
Despite their apparent differences, COVID-19 and cholera
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