Researches on the bacteriological diagnosis of cholera carried out by medical officers of the Sanitary, Maritime and Quarantine Council of Egypt / under the direction of Marc Armand Ruffer, President of the Council.

Date:
1907
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Credit: Researches on the bacteriological diagnosis of cholera carried out by medical officers of the Sanitary, Maritime and Quarantine Council of Egypt / under the direction of Marc Armand Ruffer, President of the Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Secondly. Is it likely that the vibrios agglutinating with cho serum come from a different place than the non agglutinating vibr In my opinion, the probability is that wherever the pilgrims infer themselves with vibrios agglutinating with cholera-serum, there t absorbed the other vibrios also. Thirdly. Did the pilgrims whose faeces contained vibrios ag. tinating by cholera serum, bring these vibrios from their homes the Hedjaz and El Tor, or were they infected en route? A few details concerning the route followed by pilgrims travel to and from Mecca are here necessary. The pilgrims who unde quarantine at El Tor go to Mecca by two different routes. A mm of them, chiefly Turks and people from Asia Minor, land at Yarr stay there a few days and then proceed to Medina on foot or camel. After resting a few days at Medina, they travel to Me remaining in the holy city until the feast is over; that is, from a w to a month, or perhaps longer in some cases. The other pilgrims, consisting for the most part of Egyptk Moghrabis, Algerians, Syrians and Russians, proceed the reve way: that is, they land at Jeddah and go on to Mecca, Medina, Yan and El Tor. It is an undoubted fact that the vibrios agglutinating with chol serum have so far been found only among pilgrims from Turk Russia and Asia Minor returning via Jeddah, and it has been argi that the latter carried the cholera vibrios, from their own country i the Hedjaz and back to El Tor. I am not ready to admit this theory and for the follow reasons. In the first place, I do not believe that the presence vibrios among the pilgrims was limited to the year 1897, 1905 c 19 )6, but consider it highly probable that the phenomenon occi every year. As a matter of fact, vibrios agglutinating with chol< serum have been found at El Tor whenever they have been looked J and exclusively among pilgrims returning via Jeddah. In 1897, wl the vibrios were first discovered, Asia Minor and the route follov by pilgrims were free from cholera. In 1905 and 1906 cert districts, but by no means the whole of Asia Minor, were infeci with cholera; but there is absolutely no evidence to show that 1 pilgrims, harbouring vibrios in their intestines, came from a chole infected district, or had been in contact with cases of this dise;