In the mid-1800s, physicians gathered around a man who was being treated for cholera in the city of Puducherry on the southeastern coast of India. At the time, no one understood it was a bacterial ...

These days, cholera is largely an African disease, with over 95 percent of all cases worldwide over the past two decades occurring in Africa. In his informative history of the seven cholera pandemics ...

Nova Scotia has a long history of using quarantines to protect itself from infectious diseases, but it was a lack of quarantine that inadvertently led to a health disaster and the founding of Halifax.

During the final week of October, earthquake-ravaged Haiti scrambled to contain a sudden outbreak of cholera that threatened to turn into a full-scale epidemic. Once a global malady, the intestinal ...

Malawi is emerging victorious in its battle against the deadliest cholera outbreak in the country's history, which has killed nearly 2,000 people since its onset in March of last year. Health ...

[<a href="https://www.newstribune.com/news/health/" style="color:#33AEFF">access the News Tribune Health section</a>] In late 1848 ...

The number of cholera cases in Yemen has hit one million. This is the largest cholera outbreak in modern history. The situation is dire—and this is a tragedy that shouldn’t be happening. How much do ...

Cholera is completely preventable but also extremely dangerous, causing severe dehydration, diarrhoea and vomiting - symptoms that can kill within hours without treatment, writes Kampala [Photo ...

It had already become the world’s biggest cholera outbreak in recent history, but now the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen since April has hit 1 million, and at an incredibly fast speed. The ...

Martinez-Urtaza says the cholera outbreak “coincided in both time and space with a significant El Niño event in late 1991 and early 1992”. Ronnie Gavilán, a researcher at Peru’s National Institute of ...