As a Visitor to a Country in Which Cholera Is

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Essay

As a visitor to a country in which cholera is an endemic disease, what specific steps would you take to reduce your risk of cholera exposure? Will these precautions also prevent you from contracting other waterborne diseases? If so, which ones? Identify waterborne diseases for which your precautions may not prevent infection.

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Definitions:

Retrograde Amnesia

Retrograde Amnesia is a loss of memory-access to events that occurred or information that was learned before an injury or the onset of a disease.

Anterograde Amnesia

A loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, leading to an inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

A severe form of dissociation, a mental process, resulting in a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memory, and sense of identity, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

Integrate Personalities

The process of merging different aspects or fragments of personality into a cohesive self-identity.