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U1-John Snow Defeats King Cholera
眉山天府新区实验中学 屈晓梅
Reading
Watch a short video. Think about the question.
Why was the man in the deserted little cabin hated and killed by the villagers?
Pre-reading : Lead-in
Why was the man in the deserted little cabin hated and killed by the villagers?
Because he was infected with a deadly disease — cholera.
Pre-reading : Lead-in
Cholera is an extremely deadly disease. If you are infected with cholera, you will probably die in several days! It might be spread in four ways.
—Drinking polluted water.
—Eating raw food (or food without being cooked).
—Contacting directly with cholera-infected patients.
— “Kissed” by flies carrying cholera germs.
In the 1830s and 1840s, cholera broke out four times in England and killed tens of thousands of people there.
In 1854, the most terrible outbreak of cholera in history occurred in England. This cholera was called “King Cholera”. It was so severe an