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a Chicago urban legend states that 90,000 people died in Chicago typhoid fever and cholera in 1885?
in 1906, some Filipino prisoners involved in medical experiments in the United States cholera , and those who survived were rewarded with cigars or cigarettes?
Providence, Ohio ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?
Oladevi deity whose worship may have originated in the Indus Valley Civilization , was honoured and feared as the goddess of cholera in rural Bengal ?
ADP-ribosylation posttranslational protein modification , is involved in the actions of several bacterial toxins in diseases such as cholera and whooping cough ?
Guido Verbeck ,Dutch -born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas ?
Japan 's entomological warfare China during World War II used plague -infected fleas and cholera -coated flies to kill nearly 500,000 people?
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Question 3 : Direct ________ of stool is not recommended as it is unreliable.
Question 4 : Beginning in ________ there were 1.04 million identified cases and almost 10,000 deaths.
Question 5 : 1854 - Outbreak of cholera in ________ took the lives of 5.5% of the population (about 3,500 people).
Question 6 : Samuel Charles Stowe, son of ________
Question 7 : Recent epidemiologic research suggests that an individual's susceptibility to cholera (and other diarrheal infections) is affected by their ________ : those with type O blood are the most susceptible,[ 18] [ 19] type AB are the most resistant.
Question 8 : In 1867, ________ lost 113,000 lives.
Question 9 : [ 62] ________ .
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