In this 2009 article published amidst a global resurgence of the disease at the time, long-time The Doctor Says columnist Dr Milton Lum explained what cholera is, how it is spread and how to prevent it.
This story originally appeared in StarLifestyle (then known as StarTwo) on 9 December 2009, and has been edited for brevity and clarity.
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