Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health worker wears a protective outfit at a hospital where cholera patients are treated in Sudan [File: AFP] A cholera outbreak ...

CAIRO (AP) — A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan, killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week. Centered around Khartoum, the disease has spread as many ...

CAIRO — Nearly 100 people died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan’s White Nile State, an international aid group said. Doctors Without Borders — also known as ...

In western Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika area, containment measures to deal with a cholera epidemic that has claimed some 30 lives among refugees and the local community appear to be working with no new ...

Cholera, a disease so fatal that it can become severe within hours without treatment, was something we thought was not a big cause of worry. With proper measures, the cases of cholera were contained, ...

Idris said that as of June 30, Nigeria recorded 2,102 suspected cholera cases and 63 deaths across 33 states and 122 local government areas. The Director-General of the centre, Dr. Jide Idris, said ...

The number of reported cholera cases is increasing in Darfur and more than 3,000 people across all of Sudan have died from the illness over the last 14 months of civil war, the U.N. health agency said ...

Family Physicians have emphasised that cholera, though fatal, was preventable if the government at all levels and relevant stakeholders would do the needful. They spoke in separate interviews with the ...

MAPUTO (Reuters) - The number of cholera cases has almost doubled in Mozambique in the past 24 hours and the port city of Beira has recorded its first death from the disease since a massive cyclone ...