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  CHOLERA AN UNDERDEVELOPMENTAL CHALANGE To say that Nigeria is an underdeveloped country would just be stating the obvious. Underdevelopment is a term often used to refer to economic underdevelopment, albeit there are political underdevelopment and social underdevelopment. Symptoms of these under developmental disease include lack of access to job opportunities, health care, drinkable water, food, education, housing, roads etc. Cholera as we are aware is a disease which is said to affect the human digestive system, it is an infection in the small intestine caused by the bacterium vibrio cholerae, cholera is typically transmitted by either contaminated food or water. In the developed world, sea food is usually the cause, while in the underdeveloped world it is often caused by water. People infected with cholera often have diarrhea, and if this highly liquid stool contaminates water used by others, disease transmission may occur. In Haiti reports have it that cholera death toll