Why aren't bacterial pandemics as common as viral epidemics?

I’ll repeat the quote I had in my answer, which you should be able to read:

Cholera is an acute disease of the gastrointestinal tract caused by Vibrio cholerae. Cholera was localized in Asia until 1817, when a first pandemic spread from India to several other regions of the world. After this appearance, six additional major pandemics occurred during the 19th and 20th centuries, the latest of which originated in Indonesia in the 1960s and is still ongoing.

and is still ongoing.

And is still ongoing.

I understand that you’ve chosen to die on this bizarre hill, but it’s really not hard to say, “Huh, I didn’t know that”.

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