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adopted measures of self-defense,
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and those too helped to cut short the outbreak,
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especially later in the century
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when the disease was better understood.
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It's now known too that the cholera can survive in a spore form,
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in algae blooms offshore of the great port cities,
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and so there is a possibility too that the disease
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was re-imported from the waters offshore.
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In any case, what were the reactions to cholera in a community?
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Here there was an analogy, possibly with plague,
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in that cholera too generated terror and fear.
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This is partly because of the agonizing nature