| cholera after the consumption of raw oysters. a case report. | in august 1986, a 76-year-old woman in miami, florida, developed profuse watery diarrhea and abdominal cramps. two and four days before the onset of her illness, she had eaten six raw oysters at each of two restaurants in miami. a stool specimen yielded toxigenic vibrio cholerae o1 biotype el tor, serotype inaba. the results of toxin gene probing of the organism recovered from the patient differed significantly from those of other v. cholerae o1 isolates from the gulf coast and elsewhere in the ... | 1987 | 3688678 |
| update on cholera --- haiti, dominican republic, and florida, 2010. | on october 21, 2010, a cholera outbreak was confirmed by the haitian national public health laboratory. by november 19, the outbreak had reached every department of the country, and by december 17, a total of 121,518 cases of cholera, resulting in 63,711 hospitalizations and 2,591 deaths, had been reported. by november 16, additional cases of cholera had been confirmed in the neighboring dominican republic and in florida. several confirmed cases in the dominican republic and all confirmed u.s. c ... | 2010 | 21178947 |