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LetDuncanDie t1_j66u021 wrote

Those numbers are two decimal places larger than what I was expecting. That's fucked.

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Sabertooth767 t1_j6890oc wrote

Cholera is not hard to prevent with basic sanitation, but flair-ups can be absolutely devastating. A key reason for it's effectiveness is that it turns the cure into poison: contaminated water causes diarrhea, which causes dehydration so the sick drink more contaminated water, repeat until death. In a situation like Haiti where there simply isn't enough safe water, the disease runs rampant.

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