Notable Cases
- Tchaikovsky's death has traditionally been attributed to cholera, most probably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier. Since the water was not boiled and cholera was affecting Saint Petersburg, such a connection is quite plausible ...." Tchaikovsky's mother died of cholera, and his father became sick with cholera at this time but made a full recovery. Some scholars, however, including English musicologist and Tchaikovsky authority David Brown and biographer Anthony Holden, have theorized that his death was a suicide.
- After the 2010 earthquake, an outbreak swept over Haiti. The number of deaths have been difficult to verify due to the fact that most people do not have enough money to go to the hospital and are dying at home. An estimated 470,000 cases of this infection has been reported in this third world country. After one year, this marks the worst cholera outbreak in recent history, as well as the best documented cholera outbreak in modern public health.
Other famous people believed to have died of cholera include:
- Sadi Carnot, Physicist, a founder of thermodynamics (d. 1832)
- Charles X, King of France (d. 1836)
- James K. Polk, eleventh president of the United States (d. 1849)
- Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian soldier and German military theorist (d. 1831)
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