GENEVA (Reuters) -The global stockpile of cholera vaccines the World Health Organization helps manage is "currently empty or extremely low", a WHO official said on Friday amid a resurgence of the ...

The African CDC has recently warned of a surge in cholera cases across the continent. Cholera, caused by certain strains of V. cholerae, is a waterborne infection that spreads rapidly, particularly in ...

While it has gotten competition from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, measles is also a virus that is known as one of the most infectious diseases there is. While it causes mild symptoms ...

Experts have used a cutting-edge computational approach to discover the genetic factors that make the bacteria behind cholera so dangerous - which could be key to preventing this deadly disease. The ...

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 ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe. The virulent ...

The epidemic began four years ago with a savage invasion of the Philippines, and the marauding microbes steadily expanded their area of attack. Java, Sumatra, Thailand, the Indian subcontinent, all ...

According to reports, at least 35 individuals have been admitted to the Sub-District Hospital (SDH) in Dhoraji, and 3 people who tested for cholera remain under medical supervision as of Tuesday.

From Haiti to Syria to Pakistan, UNICEF is rushing supplies for cholera treatment and prevention, focusing on the most vulnerable. Dr. Fatima Adeli and her UNICEF-supported mobile health and nutrition ...

A Bayelsa NGO forum is educating communities on cholera prevention through hygiene, sanitation, and safe water practices to ...

LILONGWE- (MaraviPost)- Malawi’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that two people in the country have tested positive for cholera, raising concern about the possible spread of the disease if ...

Oral administration of a cocktail of three viruses, all of which specifically kill cholera bacteria, prevents infection and cholera-like symptoms in animal model experiments, report scientists from ...