Nigeria's government declared a cholera outbreak in the northeastern state of Borno. An estimated one million people are at risk of catching the illness, with those in camps for the displaced at high risk. https://reut.rs/3Fq4tHz | Reuters

In 1854 a doctor removed a single pump handle and slowed a deadly cholera outbreak. In 1854, London was struck by a severe cholera outbreak that killed families within days. Most officials believed the disease spread through “bad air,” but physician John Snow suspected contaminated drinking water — a radical idea for the time. Snow mapped cholera cases in the neighborhood surrounding Broad Street and noticed they clustered around one public pump. He interviewed families, traced infection pattern

In 1854, a severe cholera outbreak struck London's Soho district, near Broad Street and Golden Square, killing 616 people during the global 1846 to 1860 pandemic. The epidemic peaked intensely from August 31, with 127 deaths in the first three days alone, and over 500 by September 10 in an area where residents faced overcrowding, poor sanitation, and no proper sewer system. Symptoms appeared suddenly, including violent vomiting, diarrhea, and rapid dehydration that proved fatal within hours or d

Maps have the power to change minds, as the 1861 map that convinced Lincoln to end slavery proves. Maps also have the power to save lives. One such map, the John Snow map, single handedly ended a cholera outbreak and revolutionized epidemiology. Dr. John Snow’s cholera map of London charted deaths in the Soho neighborhood during the 1854 cholera outbreak. #CholeraEpidemic #JohnSnow #WeirdHistory | Weird History