In 2010, Haiti began to experience the worst cholera outbreak in the country's history. Five years and nearly 9,000 lost lives later, there's an interesting question to be asked: Could better ...

Cholera was once one of the most dreaded diseases in crowded early industrial cities. It claimed thousands of lives, sweeping away whole families in one epidemic after another. Doctors were baffled by ...

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The Federal Government must address the water crisis to tackle the spread of diseases, an environmental engineer and former steering committee member of the Nigeria Water and Sanitation Association ...

The most likely source of the cholera epidemic in Yemen has been discovered by scientists. Through the use of genomic sequencing, scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Institut Pasteur ...

In the mid-1800s, physicians gathered around a man who was being treated for cholera in the city of Puducherry on the southeastern coast of India. At the time, no one understood it was a bacterial ...

Haiti has been grappling with a devastating cholera epidemic for six years. The outbreak began in 2010, nine months after the small Caribbean island of 10 million was hit by an earthquake that leveled ...

Patient zero was a baby girl living in London. She contracted cholera on Aug. 28, 1854. That day her mother cleaned her diapers in a bucket and emptied the fetid effluent into the building’s cesspool, ...