Monsoon season in India brings a surge in waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, mainly due to contaminated food and water ...

During its meeting chaired by the Ministry of Health in Khartoum on Tuesday, the Emergency Operations Center confirmed that the cholera epidemic has significantly declined in Khartoum State following ...

Reports from Ameth Bek Hospital in Abyei Town, where MSF established a 20-bed cholera treatment unit (CTU) on 11 April, ...

THE discovery of gold in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has triggered a population boom and exposed the region to a renewed cholera scourge. Lomera, the lakeside village in th ...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is launching prevention efforts, including raising awareness amongst vulnerable communities of how to prevent the spread of disease, to prepare for a possible ...

With Chinese bank loans overdue, Harare charges residents for major upgrades that were never completed.

A new study by the Genomics and Microbial Evolution Group at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) together with the ...

However, infectious diseases that were hitherto under control are re-emerging globally and the pathogens of these diseases are highly resistant to known antibiotics.

Professor of Medicine, and Environmental & Occupation Health at the University of California in the United States of America ...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) include targets for safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene ...

Cholera is a deadly diarrhoeal disease spread through ingesting contaminated food and water. Entirely preventable, it can kill within hours if a severe case is left untreated.

Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae. Though many people infected by cholera bacteria don’t become sick, the infection can sometimes cause severe, even life-threatening diarrhea and ...