Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by consuming water or food contaminated with the bacteria Vibrio cholerae. Symptoms include diarrhea and vomiting, which can lead to severe dehydration. It ...

Here are the common causes and preventions of cholera. Contaminated water, such as tap water from contaminated supplies, ice or drinks made from unclean water, and infected water used for growing ...

Global cholera vaccine supply has now increased to a level sufficient to allow the resumption of life-saving preventive campaigns for the first time in over three years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, ...

The arrival of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kits for cholera in Malawi today signals the start of a global programme that will see more than 1.2 million tests distributed to 14 countries at high risk ...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) include targets for safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), which are critical in preventing cholera, a persistent health threat ...

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 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, ...

Two weeks after schools closed to prevent the spread of cholera, more than 200,000 students at 89 schools in Malawi's two largest cities,Blantyre and Lilonge, were able to return to their classrooms ...

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.