Forbes August 4, 2024
During the 20th century, a devastating cholera pandemic that started in India in 1899 and rapidly spread to other parts of the world until 1923 killed more than 800,000 people in India alone. According to a recent study, an El Niño event might have played a key role in enabling the rapid transmission of a new strain of the bacterium that causes cholera.
An El Niño event is a global climate phenomenon that occurs due to the unusual warming of ocean surfaces in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which then has cascading impacts on ocean temperatures and the strength and speed of ocean currents across the world.
“One possible explanation for such a synchronous and extreme cholera event is climate anomalies...
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