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What comes to mind when we hear ‘cholera’? Why is cholera still a problem in the world today? The Bay of Bengal has the dubious distinction of housing on its shores the only populations in the world where the disease has been endemic (‘in the people’) for centuries. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the movement of sailors, traders and indentured labour carried