Zambia reported two deaths and 17 new cases of Cholera over the past 24 hours, authorities said Thursday, urging citizens to ...

The water is a toxic cocktail of sewage and chemicals. From flesh-eating bacteria to cholera, here are the life-threatening dangers lurking beneath the surface ...

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.

Humanitarian organizations have completed a critical emergency aid mission in Mozambique, following a devastating flood that threatened public health across the region. The severe flooding, among the ...

Ministry of Health warns ongoing long rains may cause a surge in disease outbreaks, even as cholera burns through four ...

This week in Africa: a potential breakthrough in the fight against sleeping sickness with a single-dose oral treatment, alongside a $1.2 billion health agreement between the DRC and the United States.

In Blantyre, a man who lived skint on dirty streets has become a mayor the city was probably waiting for. Elected last ...

A cholera outbreak in Bargarh’s Goudpali village infected 19 people, including a child. Three patients remain critical.

WHO warns of looming health emergency in southern Africa after 4,320 cholera cases and 56 deaths reported in weeks to 15 February.

CONGOLESE authorities and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are making frantic efforts to curb the incessant spread of cholera. Emerging from the most serious cholera epidemic in a quarter of a ...

After eight weeks of emergency intervention by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Sangé in the province of South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the number of cholera cases ...

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, ...