A cholera outbreak at an artisanal gold mine in South Kivu province has infected more than 600 people, overwhelming local ...

A cholera outbreak which started in South Sudan last September and was confirmed a month later – comes amidst a protracted ...

A cholera outbreak at an artisanal gold mine in South Kivu Province has infected over 600 people, overwhelming local health ...

UNICEF is working with Sudan's Ministry of Health and other partners to protect children from cholera. More supplies and ...

Residents of Keta in the Volta Region are sounding the alarm about the increasing practice of open defaecation in the area, particularly at the sea and lagoon shores which threaten the health of the ...

On the eve of the fourteenth anniversary of its independence, South Sudan – the world’s youngest country – is experiencing ...

THE government is appealing to the World Health Organization (WHO) and other health sector partners as the country has ...

As Nigeria battles multiple public health threats, cholera, an age-old waterborne infection, has remained a recurring problem ...

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 ...

Cholera, which spreads primarily through contaminated water and food, causes severe diarrhea and dehydration. The ongoing El Tor pandemic, also known as the seventh cholera pandemic, ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Here's what to know about the bacterial disease.

A major cholera outbreak, thought to have started at a popular Lexington tavern, killed about 7% of the city’s population in ...