Cholera spread can be reduced by modifying behaviour, especially handshakes. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 people stopped shaking hands and used the “Ebola elbow shake”.

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“God in his mercy be thanked” said Katherine. “My dear Lord is then truly and honestly rid of his fardel.”

VB6 projects can be migrated to VB .NET, but there's no way to automagically port onwards to C#. There was a betaish tool that converted C# code to VB .NET, but I'm not sure if it was ever officially released.