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The speed with which government leaders respond to cholera outbreaks is important.Besides contributing to an effective or declining public health care system and water sanitation treatments, government can have indirect effects on cholera control and the effectiveness of a response to cholera. A countrys government can impact its ability to prevent disease and control its spread. A speedy government response backed by a fully functioning health care system and financial resources can prevent choleras spread. This limits choleras ability to cause death, or at the very least a decline in education, as children are kept out of school to minimize the risk of infection. Notable cases
Tchaikovskys death has traditionally been attributed to cholera, most probably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier. Tchaikovskys mother died of cholera, and his father became sick with cholera at this time but made a full recovery. Some scholars, however, including English musicologist and Tchaikovsky authority David Brown and biographer Anthony Holden, have theorized that his death was a suicide. 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak. Ten months after the 2010 earthquake, an outbreak swept over Haiti, traced to a United Nations base of peacekeepers from Nepal. This marks the worst cholera outbreak in recent history, as well as the best documented cholera outbreak in modern public health. Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet and novelist, is thought to have died of cholera in Istanbul in 1855.