Cholera is an acute bacterial disease. It causes severe acute watery diarrhoea, vomiting, and dehydration which leads to death, if not treated on time. [iStockphoto] At least six deaths and 271 new ...
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 ...
A pensioner has died from a cholera-like disease a century after the epidemic was wiped out in the UK. The dad-of-two, who ...
A 62-year-old woman has died of cholera in Mayotte, bringing to two the death toll from the epidemic on the French island in the Indian Ocean, health authorities said on Sunday. The woman died on ...
Abia Government says that there was no confirmed case of cholera in the state, though it recorded 109 cases of stooling and vomiting in six of its 17 Local Government Areas. Dr Orie Agomoh, Director, ...
A wedding guest has died while 40 others have been hospitalized from food poisoning and cholera. The wedding feast was attended by some 450 guests, according to Kenya's Star newspaper. The food ...
An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Traders selling food next to a pile of garbage in Muthurwa market, Nairobi. Cholera ...
No fewer than nine persons have been killed in Gwarzo local government area of Kano State with 20 others hospitalised following suspected outbreak of cholera. The affected villages include Lakwaya, ...
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