When Hurricane Matthew struck on October 4, 2016, it left 1.4 million people in southern Haiti in need of urgent humanitarian assistance; it destroyed homes and health care facilities, flooded water ...

The bacteria causing cholera is present in stool or other effluent that may seep into and contaminate waterways, soil or sources of drinking water. Drinking infected water or even just using it to ...

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 ...

Patients and companions at the Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti, April 2015. Andres Martinez Casares On January 12, 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing thousands of people and ...

Cholera is a diarrheal disease that is caused by an intestinal bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti brought public attention to this deadly disease. In this work, the ...

For the first time, the transmission of cholera has been tracked at the household level across Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city with a 'hyper-endemic' level of the disease. Researchers from the Wellcome ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...

Despite efforts to improve the availability of safe water and adequate sanitation, cholera continues to kill more than 100,000 people around the world every year. To combat this needless suffering, ...

The bacteria—V cholerae—colonize the small intestine where they secrete a potent enterotoxin. This toxin does not damage the intestinal lining but leads to the overproduction of cyclic AMP, which ...

Children are at particular risk of dying from cholera, and yet a new review conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that cholera vaccines provide less ...

The world didn't only just go through the COVID-19 pandemic, the seventh cholera pandemic is ongoing, and has been for some ...