All joking aside ... I did have cholera in beautiful S.E. Asia (also most likely from the well water I was filtering through a t-shirt). In fact, the buddy I just visited in Texas and I both came down with it at the same time as we lived in the same hooch in a jungle village at that time. I was as close to dying as one can possibly get and at one point, was actually WISHING I'd go ahead and die just to get it over with. It's some nasty, nasty stuff! Trust me on that one.