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, ...

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

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 — A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and sickened more than 2,500 over the last week, authorities said Tuesday as a leading medical group warned that the country’s existing ...

Cholera-causing bacteria are locked in an evolutionary arms race with a viral nemesis, according to a new genomic study. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, icddr,b (International Centre for ...

Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly 4 years due to a vaccine shortage, the WHO said Wednesday. In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance ...

A cholera outbreak in a southern Sudanese city killed nearly 60 people and sickened about 1,300 others over the last three days, health authorities said Saturday. The outbreak in the southern city of ...

When we think of cholera, most of us picture contaminated water and tragic outbreaks in vulnerable regions. But behind the scenes, cholera bacteria are locked in a fierce, microscopic war-one that ...

Cholera bacteria aren't just battling antibiotics and public health measures—they are also constantly under attack from bacteriophages (phages), viruses that infect and kill bacteria. These viruses ...

A highly drug-resistant strain of cholera has been found in patients around the world, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The World Health Organization has estimated ...