What is the risk for cholera in the United States?
U. S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Centers for Disease Control and Prevention MMWR 40(15):1991 Apr 19 Importation of Cholera from Peru On April 9, 1991, a U.S. physician attending a conference in Lima, Peru, had onset of diarrhea. He reported a maximum of eight watery stools in 24 hours and experienced no other symptoms except moderate weakness. The diarrhea lasted 5 days. After arriving in Peru on April 5, he had eaten all his meals, including a cold crab meat appetizer 2 days before onset of illness, in his hotel or at events catered solely for the conference participants. He also consumed ice and municipal water that the hotel reported had been purified.
