The epidemic began four years ago with a savage invasion of the Philippines, and the marauding microbes steadily expanded their area of attack. Java, Sumatra, Thailand, the Indian subcontinent, all ...

Haiti on Sunday said at least seven people have died of cholera in a surprise return of the disease that comes as the nation is paralyzed by a gang blockade that has triggered shortages of fuel and ...

Cholera can kill a person in a matter of hours. It's a severe gastro-intestinal disease, and it can trigger so much diarrhea and vomiting that patients can rapidly become dehydrated. They losing so ...

According to WHO, Vibrio cholerae causes 1.3 to 4 million infections and 21,000 to 143,000 deaths worldwide each year. The disease incidence and severity disproportionately affect children aged ...

Residents of Apiapumtet and several other communities in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State have raised fresh ...

The latest cholera surge is in Yemen, and Haiti is still fighting the world's worst outbreak. Why does this waterborne disease remain a global... Cholera can kill a person in a matter of hours. It's a ...

People take a bath in a canal following Hurricane Maria, in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, on Oct.1, 2017. Less than half of Puerto Ricans have clean drinking water. Two weeks after Hurricane Maria, only 5 ...

Editor's note: This story was republished on October 7 to include new information on Sudan's cholera outbreak. Cholera is making news again. The latest outbreak is in Sudan. In early September, an ...

Two weeks after Hurricane Maria, only 5 percent of Puerto Ricans have electricity and less than half have clean drinking water, according to the territorial governor's office. But the Centers for ...

A cartoon from an 1852 issue of Punch shows the unsanitary conditions in London slums, which led to cholera outbreaks. Cholera can kill a person in a matter of hours. It's a severe gastrointestinal ...

Cholera can kill a person in a matter of hours. It's a severe gastrointestinal disease that can trigger so much diarrhea and vomiting that patients can rapidly become dehydrated. They lose so much ...