This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of ...
Sudan first announced the outbreak of cholera in August 2024. According to earlier statistics, the country recorded over 100,000 cases nationwide, including about 2,408 deaths, between July 2024 and ...
The Federal Ministry of Health has declared the country free of the cholera epidemic that was first reported in August 2024.
The last outbreak of cholera in the United Kingdom was in 1866; the United States has not had an outbreak since 1911. And yet today, outbreaks of cholera are raging in 32 countries, with more than ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Health-funding cuts are wreaking havoc on many African countries’ ability to gain control diseases such as cholera, according to the continent’s main health-advisory body. Financial aid provided by ...
Governments must stop denying the occurrence of cholera and unite in long-term prevention strategies, says Anita Zaidi. You have full access to this article via your ...