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 ...

CAIRO (AP) — Nearly 100 people died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan’s White Nile State, an international aid group said. Doctors Without Borders — also ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe. The virulent ...

SANAA, Yemen — Cholera is surging once again in Yemen, with the U.N. reporting that the number of suspected cases has doubled in March over previous months and doctors in overwhelmed health facilities ...

The worst cholera outbreak to affect Malawi in two decades has now claimed 750 lives, a government minister said, while the World Health Organization chief described the southeast African country as ...

Beds reserved for accident victims at the Kenyatta National Hospital have been taken over by cholera patients as the scourge continues to ravage the country. By last evening, the country’s referral ...

Anita Ashfaqunnesa skips over a ditch oozing with raw sewage, her spotlesswhite shawl trailing behind her like a superhero’s cape, then squeezesbetween shacks built on an old rubbish dump. Three years ...

Private health facilities in Mandera County have been put on notice for not giving proper medical attention to cholera patients at their hospitals. While addressing the media, Mandera Health CEC ...