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The second cholera pandemic also known as the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic was a Cholera pandemic from 1829-1851 reached Europe, London and Paris in 1832.^[1]

This pandemic began, like the first, with outbreaks along the Ganges River delta. From there the disease spread along trade routes to cover most of India. By 1828 the disease had traveled to China and was at the southern tips of the Ural Mountains in 1829. In London, the disease claimed 6,536 victims; in Paris, 20,000 succumbed (out of a population of 650,000) with about 100,000 deaths in all of France.^[2] The epidemic reached Russia (see Cholera Riots), Quebec, Ontario and New York in the same year and the Pacific coast of North America between 1832 and 1834.^[1]

Norwegian Poet Henrik Wergeland wrote a stage-play inspired by the pandemic, as it reached as far as Norway. The Indian Cholera, as he called it, criticized British colonialism for spreading the pandemic.

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Cholera Cholera Symptoms - Treatment - Prevention - Susceptibility - Transmission - Diagnosis - History Cholera Bacteria Vibrio cholerae - Strains: El Tor Discovery:1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak - John Snow - Reverend Henry Whitehead Treatment Oral rehydration therapy Antibiotics:Tetracycline - cotrimoxazole - erythromycin - doxycycline - chloramphenicol - furazolidone Fluoroquinolones:norfloxacin Outbreaks Cholera Pandemics: First cholera pandemic - Second cholera pandemic - Third cholera pandemic - Fourth cholera pandemic - Fifth cholera pandemic - Sixth cholera pandemic - Seventh cholera pandemic 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak - 2007 Central Luzon hog cholera outbreak - 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak - 2008 Congo cholera outbreak - 2008–2009 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak