Cholera, or “the blue death” as it is sometimes called, is often thought of as a disease of the distant past. This is far from true. The world is still in the midst of a cholera pandemic, unbeknownst ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...

The world didn't only just go through the COVID-19 pandemic, the seventh cholera pandemic is ongoing, and has been for some ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of ...

An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable ...

Global cholera vaccine supply has now increased to a level sufficient to allow the resumption of life-saving preventive campaigns for the first time in over three years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti as experts warn the situation could worsen now that the country is bustling once again after a paralyzing fuel blockade that lasted ...

A deadly resurgence of cholera in Haiti has claimed 136 lives so far, according to the Caribbean nation’s health ministry. Eighty-nine of the people who were infected died in a hospital or in cholera ...

The vaccine — $417,000 worth of it — is stacked high in refrigerated containers to protect it from the Haitian heat. Hundreds of health workers are trained and ready to give the vaccine. They're armed ...

Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by a toxin produced by Vibrio cholerae that leads to life-threatening losses of fluid and electrolytes. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

Cholera outbreaks are more common in internally displaced persons camps Stefan Heunis/AFP via Getty Images Thousands of cases of cholera have been reported in Nigeria between January and June 2021.