The Odisha government put on June 17 all 30 districts on high alert and intensified containment measures amidst a cholera outbreak. The government’s actions are a reaction to the rising death toll and ...

Widespread drought, food insecurity and conflict across East Africa and Yemen have led to a mass displacement of people. Refugee camps are overcrowded and lack clean water, sanitation and health care, ...

Researchers from the University of Nottingham and Bangladesh have utilized machine learning and genomics to identify genetic traits in Vibrio cholerae linked to severe cholera symptoms. Their findings ...

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 ...

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, ...

In October 2010, nearly 10 months after a devastating earthquake, Haiti was stricken by epidemic cholera. Within days after detection, the Ministry of Public Health and Population established a ...

Key to preventing cholera is a good supply of water. Getty images Microbiologist Sam Kariuki, the director of Kenya’s Medical Research Institute, explains what cholera is and why it’s so hard to ...

As of October 1, 771,945 people in Yemen have been infected with cholera and 2,134 have died from the disease. The epidemic, rare on such a scale in contemporary times, reemerged as a formidable force ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) As of October 1, people in Yemen have been and have died from the disease. The epidemic, rare on such a scale in contemporary times, reemerged as a formidable force last ...