Cholera, or “the blue death” as it is sometimes called, is often thought of as a disease of the distant past. This is far from true. The world is still in the midst of a cholera pandemic, unbeknownst ...

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how ...

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 ...

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, ...

August 15, 1852 - Rebecca Winters was on a trip westward after fleeing religious persecution when Cholera struck. She died August 15 near Scottsbluff. Rebecca was buried in the prairie, her grave ...

A slim ledger in the library of the Historical Society records a time when the people of the Quincy came together- businesses, citizens and government united to protect our city against a deadly and ...