The bacterium Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera and is responsible for seven known pandemics. The seventh cholera pandemic began in 1961 and is still active.

New research suggests that an El Nino event may have aided the establishment and spread of a novel cholera strain during an early 20th-century pandemic, supporting the idea that climate anomalies ...

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, ...

A pandemic emerges. It spreads around the world, claims lives and devastates economies for decades. Climate change makes it even deadlier. It infects hundreds of millions of people and kills millions, ...

As a tidal wave of cholera rolled across Asia, Africa and Europe, the Tribune reported on Dec. 14, 1853, that the dreaded disease had reached the East Coast. Its victims were immigrants who died ...

Cholera, or “the blue death” as it is sometimes called, is often thought of as a disease of the distant past. This is far from true. The world is still in the midst of a cholera pandemic, unbeknownst ...

In this article, we take a look back at some of the other pandemics that humans have endured. We investigate cholera, the Black Death, and the Spanish flu, among others. We will note any similarities ...

National Road 6 runs west from Mozambique’s port city Beira towards Chimoio and Manica province and the Zimbabwe border. Near the coast it goes through a low-lying agricultural area that was flooded ...

Fatalities spiked 71 percent last year, far outpacing the 13 percent rise in cases, the World Health Organization said. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen, who covers global health, has reported on ...