Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...

The trial, led by a team of scientists and physicians at Mass General Brigham hospital in Boston, was investigating the ...

Cholera is contracted by consuming food or water contaminated with the bacteria Vibrio cholerae. The bacteria is usually found in water contaminated with feces. Dehydration from rapid loss of body ...

Public Health Institute of Malawi (Phim) says cholera cases yesterday rose to 16 following new cases confirmed in Blantyre, ...

The Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) says the recently reported cholera outbreak in most parts of the country, ...

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America. When we ...

WHO bolsters the Ebola disease outbreak response in Uganda. (WHO photo) The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to support Uganda as the Government there responds to a deadly Ebola outbreak, ...

Clinical trial shows promising results for PanChol, a single-dose oral vaccine aimed at the up to 4 million annual cholera ...

Dr Fouad al-Haddad, director general of the Republican Hospital in Taiz, said the support provided crucial relief for the facility, the city’s primary referral centre for acute watery diarrhoea cases.

Cholera, a severe bacterial infection that causes diarrhea and kills if untreated, can be defeated with a diet high in ...

On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake dealt Haiti and its capital Port-au-Prince a catastrophic blow, killing at least ...

A study suggests that diets high in certain proteins may reduce cholera infection by stopping the bacteria from spreading in ...