A ravaging cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed almost 800 lives in just over a month, according to the World Health Organization. Since April 27, more than 101,800 suspected cholera cases and 789 ...

Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by a toxin produced by Vibrio cholerae that leads to life-threatening losses of fluid and electrolytes. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

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 ...

Malawi, in southern Africa, had all but eradicated cholera, recording only two cases in 2021. But more than 900 people died of it over the past 11 months, and the government is scrambling to contain ...

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, ...

Nigeria has recorded 65 confirmed cases of Cholera with 30 deaths from 1 January to 11 June across 96 local governments in 30 states, says the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC).

GENEVA (Reuters) - The onset of Zimbabwe's rainy season and an increase in the number of travelers over Christmas could spread a cholera epidemic that has already killed nearly 1,200 people, the Red ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks and houses to help stem the world's worst outbreak of cholera.