Cholera cases have surged this year and the disease could be making an “unwelcome comeback” as war, poverty and climate change create ideal conditions for it to spread, warned World Health ...

Cholera, which spreads primarily through contaminated water and food, causes severe diarrhea and dehydration. The ongoing El Tor pandemic, also known as the seventh cholera pandemic, emerged in ...

Oral cholera vaccine doses are seen during a vaccination campaign in Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 8, 2022. Sazzad Hossain/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty ...

A n 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 ...

A child with cholera is carried by his mother in central Malawi, on Jan. 11, 2023. Malawi’s health minister says the country’s is suffering from the worst cholera outbreak in two decades.

Cholera was first identified in 1817, seemingly emerging from the swamps of the Ganges Delta in India. Since then, it has been responsible for 50 million deaths worldwide.

The global cholera vaccine stockpile is empty at a time when there are outbreaks around the world. Last year, the WHO recommended the vaccine dose be cut in half to stretch the supply.

In 2010, a devastating cholera outbreak infected hundreds of thousands in Haiti just months after a severe earthquake left more than 100,000 dead. Prior to the outbreak, there were no reported ...

Cholera has infected half a million people in Yemen so far this year. — -- Cholera has infected half a million people in the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen so far this year, according to a ...

Cholera, usually transmitted in contaminated water, is rapidly spreading. The Mozambique government said Tuesday that it had recorded more than 1,000 cases, including one death.