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Persistence of Memory and the Comma Bacillus

This article, "Persistence of Memory and the Comma Bacillus," about Dr. Adrien Proust's role in stopping the cholera epidemics that used to ravage Europe appeared in the November 2011 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Cholera, we learn, like the persistence of memory, can resurface any time and any place "when sanitary conditions are compromised and the causative agent is present."

Read the article, "Persistance of Memory and the Common Bacillus" here on the CDC's website.

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