How cholera kills you and how we kill it

About this episode

Daniel and Kelly discuss the effects of Vibrio cholerae on the body and historical and modern methods to combat cholera.

Daniel and Kelly talk about what Vibrio cholerae does to your body, and the methods we have to combat it. They also talk about some of the really bad methods we tried using in the past. Like, real bad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Daniel, Kelly

Topics covered

• cholera
• Vibrio cholerae
• disease methods
• historical medical practices
• health

Keywords

• cholera
• Vibrio cholerae
• disease
• health
• medical history
• treatment methods

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: iHeartPodcasts

Products: Vibrio cholerae

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