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 ...

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, ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is currently facing one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent years. The illness is rapidly spreading in a number of provinces endangering the lives of ...

Cholera remains one of the most unforgiving infectious diseases known to medicine. In a healthy adult, the bacterium Vibrio ...

Traders selling food next to a pile of garbage in Muthurwa market, Nairobi. Cholera spreads quickly and widely in such cramped, dirty conditions. [File, Standard] Nairobi County Health Department ...

Just a few months ago, 42-year-old Joaquim Dembele feared for his life. A resident of the Tange neighborhood in Uíge province ...

A pensioner has died from a cholera-like disease a century after the epidemic was wiped out in the UK. The dad-of-two, who was in his 80s, deteriorated after he fell ill at home with sickness and ...

Maiduguri, Eight-year-old Ali Ibrahim sat up in his bed at the Cholera Treatment Unit (CTU) in Njimtilo, Borno State, eating ...