{"id":567880,"date":"2025-11-18T15:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=567880"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:18:48","slug":"ethiopian-holy-water-brings-cholera-to-germany-and-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/ethiopian-holy-water-brings-cholera-to-germany-and-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian holy water brings cholera to Germany and the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_567885\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-567885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-colera-2025-06-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-colera-2025-06-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-colera-2025-06-800-250x209.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-colera-2025-06-800-700x586.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-colera-2025-06-800-120x101.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Janice Haney Carr\u2009\/\u2009CDC<\/span>In February, the bacillus <em>Vibrio cholerae<\/em> traveled from East Africa to Northern Europe<span class=\"media-credits\">Janice Haney Carr\u2009\/\u2009CDC<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In January, two Ethiopians traveled to Ethiopia, purchased a plastic bottle of water from the holy well in Bermel Giorgis, and returned to Berlin. In February, the pair and a third person who may have ingested some of the water were hospitalized with acute diarrhea and vomiting. They recovered, but a strain of the bacillus cholera (<em>Vibrio cholerae<\/em>) was isolated from fecal samples of all three. That same month, the same multidrug-resistant strain was isolated from the feces of three people in London who had traveled to Bermel Giorgis and used the water to prepare food. A fourth fell ill after drinking holy water brought back from Ethiopia. They also all recovered. Between August 2022 and February 2025, a cholera outbreak in Ethiopia affected 58,381 people and caused 726 deaths. In February, the sacred well of Bermel Giorgis, which attracts pilgrims from all over the world, was identified as a source of contamination. Its holy water is consumed or used in baths for physical or spiritual healing. It is not sold, but it can be taken home by visitors (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.14.2500234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Eurosurveillance<\/em><\/a>, April 10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethiopian holy water brings cholera to Germany and the UK","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[260],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-567880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567889,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567880\/revisions\/567889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567880"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=567880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}