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and this is an imaginative idea
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of how overwhelming it is.
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This is a cholera patient about to be overwhelmed by the disease itself.
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Well, the bodily defenses against cholera are numerous.
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The saliva in the mouth was an important defense.
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The digestive juices of the stomach are acidic and tend
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to kill the bacterium when it's ingested.
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So, it's quite possible to ingest cholera bacteria
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without falling victim to the disease itself.
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But there are a number of important variables
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that condition what happens next.
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One would be how great- extensive the infective dose actually was;