Diarrhoea has the highest number of cases every year. In 2021 alone, India recorded 6,015,506 cases, the largest annual ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cholera will continue to kill and infect Haitians as long as they lack access to clean water and sanitation, with a thousand new cases reported each week, health ...

Without clean water and sanitation, disease outbreaks multiply. Cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting tropical cyclones ever recorded, carved a treacherous path in Mozambique last month that ...

A man being vaccinated against cholera in Mathare slums, Nairobi, February 2023. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] Since the nationwide cholera outbreak news broke late last year, the situation, according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The chances of infection from cholera were heightened for people in Ben Tre, southern Vietnam, when they drank ...

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, ...

While the United Nations touted its efforts in Haiti aimed at ending the world’s worst modern cholera epidemic -- a calamity many experts assert the U.N. itself caused -- U.N. peacekeepers were ...

A simple dietary tweak could dramatically reduce the risk of cholera, one of the world's deadliest waterborne diseases. According to new research, it may play a surprising role in defending against ...

The bacteria—V cholerae—colonize the small intestine where they secrete a potent enterotoxin. This toxin does not damage the intestinal lining but leads to the overproduction of cyclic AMP, which ...

In the mid-2000s, researchers showed that as cholera bacteria multiplied in waters during outbreaks, viruses that preyed on ...

Clean drinking water is one of the most urgent needs in developing countries and disaster-stricken areas, but safety tests can take days — during which tainted water can infect thousands. OmniVis aims ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, ...