The World Outside: A Changing Environment and How It Affects Us

Dr. Gary Schoolnik discusses cholera from medical, epidemiological, ecological, and economic perspectives, focusing on the links between agricultural practices, particularly the advent of chemical fertilizers, and climate change on cholera epidemics in South Asia.

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Education

Tags:

• Medicine
• infectious disease
• Bangladesh
• South Asia
• Ganges River
• Cholera
• climate change
• epidemiology
• ecology
• epidemic
• pandemic
• infections agent
• rehydration
• toxin
• small intestine
• electrolytes
• diarrhea
• Vibrio cholerae
• stool
• rice w

[grunder20]

Climate always change. That theory is constant.

[agapitoflores001]

Wow! This is awesome. Very informative one.

[ClimateAware]

Take a look at William Tarkovsky's eco-video The Book of New Creation

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