Oral Rehydration Salts, Cholera, and the Unfinished Urban Health Agenda

Abstract

Cholera has played an outsized role in the history of how cities have transformed from the victims of disease into great disease conquerors. Yet the current burden of cholera and diarrheal diseases in the fast-urbanizing areas of low-income nations shows the many ways in which the urban health agenda remains unfinished and must continue to evolve.

Keywords

• cholera
• urban health
• oral rehydration