Outbreak of cholera; ‘El Tor variant’ due to polluted water

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Friends, following swine flu, now there is a new form of cholera in my city and state, It is not the classical ‘O1 cholera’ but a new, hybrid form of cholera, known as ‘El Tor variant’. The RMIC (Regional Medical Research Centre’ says it is hybrid of two viruses. Extremely contagious, it can dehydrate your body very fast. An infected person must be admitted within 6 hours to prevent death.So far 178 villages are affected, 991 are already affected and death toll is 39 as per government statistics. But actual number of effected persons is 2000+ and more than 115 are dead. [b]The honorable health minister of state says, ‘Everything is under control’; but this is false, it is spreading rapidly. I just don’t understand why they give false data to the press.[/b]To know more about this new virus, one can see, ‘J. gen. Virol. (1989), 70, 2241-2243. Printed in Great Britain’; the article is, ‘Isolation and Morphological Characterization of El Tor Cholera Phages’ There was an outbreak of cholera El Tor in Hong Kong in 1966. Swine flu was air borne, but this is waterborne. One can see waters of river looks brown, those of ponds green due to algae. Worst thing I observed was the tap water supplied by my Public Health Department has small white germs, the kind we see in old rice, wheat flours, and rotten food. In my family we use the best quality water filter cuum purifier; it is supposed to remove not only dust and dirt but also germs. Well none can remove or kill virus. So how you purify your drinking water? Is the water from the government water tap points safe? Does your place have any outbreak of swine flu or cholera recently? Please comment on this and share your views. Professor