Most of the bacteria that causes it is killed in the stomach after ingestion, but if even a bit gets
Most of the bacteria that causes it is killed in the stomach after ingestion, but if even a bit gets through to the intestine, it will thrive and grow, and it's from the intestine where the symptoms spread. The introduction of simple cloth filters to inhabitants of poor areas such as Bangladesh has greatly decreased the incidence of this fatal disease. Killing over 100,000 people per year, this is, for ten points, what disease, characterized by debilitating diarrhea and dehydration.
Most of the bacteria that causes it is killed in the stomach after ingestion, but if even a bit gets through to the intestine, it will thrive and grow, and it's from the intestine where the symptoms spread.
{Cholera}