When somebody told local author Gary Elliott about a cholera outbreak in 1849 on a ship in Jefferson City, he was instantly intrigued. He had never heard about it, so he read a paragraph about it on ...

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year—and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...

Cholera is making a comeback. A new outbreak in Angola, West Africa, started on Jan. 7, and is likely to get worse as it spreads to more rural regions. Thus far this year, there have been ...

Recent disease modeling research challenges public health guidelines recommending conservative antibiotic use for cholera, suggesting that for some outbreaks, prescribing antibiotics more aggressively ...