Scientists have created a genomic blueprint for Aeromonas bacteria, which can cause antibiotic-resistant diarrheal disease—with symptoms often misidentified as cholera—in humans and animals.
A cholera outbreak in Bargarh’s Goudpali village infected 19 people, including a child. Three patients remain critical.
As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...
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 ...
Montasir Mohamed Osman, head of the ministry’s Health Emergencies and Epidemics Control Directorate, said that no new cases ...
The Federal Ministry of Health has declared the country free of the cholera epidemic that was first reported in August 2024.
The clinics were overwhelmed. Over just a few days in 2010, cholera had swept through the chaos of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Violently ill patients were packing wards, slumping in tents, and dying ...
A pandemic emerges. It spreads around the world, claims lives and devastates economies for decades. Climate change makes it even deadlier. It infects hundreds of millions of people and kills millions, ...
Cholera plagues poor countries with bad sanitation. But that fits Haiti before and after last January's devastating earthquake. So why did the disease only pop up now? "That's a million-dollar ...