A trio of new vaccines could provide a lifeline in the fight against cholera at a time when cases are soaring worldwide, ...

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, ...

A 19th century doctor was able to pinpoint which homes were affected by contaminated water, and link that to cholera deaths in the area. The following is an excerpt from Mapmatics: A Mathematician’s ...

Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by ingestion of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. In November 2017, a cholera epidemic occurred in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where no outbreak ...

Gina Charnley receives funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC). This is particularly concerning, considering cholera is an under reported disease. Cholera tracks with areas of ...

Wilbes, who has been experiencing cholera symptoms, drinks an oral rehydration solution at an oral rehydration point set up by the Malawi Red Cross Society (MRSC) in Lilongwe. Globally, the cholera ...

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America. When we ...

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year-and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...

Cholera is on the rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here’s how you can help UNICEF protect the lives of children at risk. A UNICEF-supported health worker disinfects a house for cholera in ...