Capital Lusaka accounts for 11 cases as seasonal rains, flooding raise water contamination risk - Anadolu Ajansı ...

South Sudan’s sustained cholera outbreak response has reduced new cases and prevented around 94 000 deaths since the confirmation of the outbreak more than two years ago in September 2024.

Minister of Health Elijah Muchima has disclosed that the country has recorded 20 new cholera cases and no deaths, in the last ...

African biostatisticians have found cholera does not spread only through contaminated water or direct contact with infected people but can also be rapidly transmitted by flies, making outbreaks faster ...

Zambia has recorded 820 cumulative cholera cases and 14 deaths since August 2025, with outbreaks reported in Mpulungu, Nsama, ...

The role that flies play in spreading cholera—a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration—has been underestimated in Africa, which carries the largest burden of the disease. In a ...

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The intercommunal conflict in South Sudan's Jonglei State has ratcheted up, leaving displaced civilians urgently in need of food, water, shelter and healthcare, UN ...

Study finds that flies can transmit cholera-causing pathogens. Africa carries the largest cholera burden, which is why an oral cholera vaccine trial is timeous. University of the Witwatersrand Study ...

Professor Romain Glele Kakaï from the University of Witwatersrand’s School of Public Health said scientists examined how often flies pick up bacteria from contaminated water, how readily they transmit ...

The national health ministry on Friday reported a renewed surge in cholera cases in Jonglei State’s Duk County, raising concerns as infections continue to spread during the dry season when outbreaks ...

Surveillance by the Africa Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention shows one of the continent’s most severe cholera waves in decades, with more than 300,000 suspected cases and over 7,000 ...

New research shows that flies may be a fuelling Africa’s worst cholera outbreak in 25 years. They do this by carrying the bacteria from contaminated ...