Cholera is a very weird bacterial disease which causes infection of small intestine. As a result, severe diarrhea and vomiting occurs leading to death in a few hours if untreated. Person becomes extremely dehydrated resulting in severe thirst, low blood pressure, wrinkled skin, muscle cramps and "Rice water" stools. Treatment of this disease is hydration of patient with intravenous transmission of salts as much as possible. This dangerous disease is also known as "Blue death" because of blue grayish appearance of patient's skin in severe cases.
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