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

Shown is a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree for 1523 V. cholerae isolates, including 17 recently obtained highly drug-resistant isolates. Blue arrows indicate the three genomic waves of the ...

Cholera-causing bacteria are locked in an evolutionary arms race with a viral nemesis, according to a new genomic study. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, icddr,b (International Centre for ...

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, ...

Experts say conflict in Sudan and South Sudan has caused cholera infections to surge. The disease, which is endemic to parts of Africa and South Asia, can be prevented and treated if detected quickly.

South Africa has experienced outbreaks of cholera since January. The worst was in May in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, where nearly 30 people died. Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads via ...

Brazzaville — The deadliest cholera outbreak in Malawi's history has killed at least 1,210 people, while vaccines remain scarce and several other African nations report outbreaks, the World Health ...

Scientists have traced the global spread of cholera back to the Ganga delta, often placing Bangladesh at the heart of the disease’s modern history. A new genomic study now overturns that assumption 1.

One company is going to great lengths to build it up, but it will be years before it returns to the minimum level. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen, who covers global health, has reported on cholera ...