Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Dec. 6, 2024. Click here for that audio. The cholera epidemic of 1854 quickly killed more than 600 people in a neighborhood of London. Officials ...

In the 19th century, officials thought cholera spread through smelly air, until one maverick doctor insisted that contaminated water was the culprit. Host Scott Tong looks at how the health ...

WHO Regional Emergency Director Dorit Nitzan has said that infectious diseases, particularly cholera, could spread in Mariupol owing to a severely damaged water supply system. Source: WHO Regional ...

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America. When we ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cholera cases in Sudan are set to rise and could spread to neighbouring countries, including Chad, which hosts hundreds of ...

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year—and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Haiti's cholera epidemic will inevitably spread to the Dominican Republic but is likely to cause less devastation there, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Many ...

Cholera had the world in its grip during the 19th century. Six separate pandemics of the intestinal disease began between 1817 and 1899, each of them originating from the Indian subcontinent. The ...

Cholera cases have surged this year and the disease could be making an “unwelcome comeback” as war, poverty and climate change create ideal conditions for it to spread, warned World Health ...

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 is a deadly disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, associated with poor sanitation and limited access to clean water. But it has also been found in seemingly clean places, including ...