Mozambique is already experiencing the health impacts of shocks and emergencies,” said Luc Lecuit, World Bank Acting Division ...

The United Nations peacekeeping chief has warned that the conflict in Sudan is spilling across its southwest border into ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched an emergency response to a cholera outbreak in Lomera, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, where a gold rush and poor sanitation fuelled rapid spread of ...

Health minister Dr Esperance Luvindao officially declared cholera an outbreak in the Opuwo district of the Kunene region, for which six of the eight cases were reported to be from one household.The ...

Professor of Medicine, and Environmental & Occupation Health at the University of California in the United States of America ...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) include targets for safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene ...

This study evaluated the impact of drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) on cholera across 89 low- and middle-income ...

Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services has officially declared a cholera outbreak in the northwestern Kunene Region, following the confirmation of Vibrio cholerae O1th ...

Health-funding cuts are wreaking havoc on many African countries' ability to gain control of diseases such as cholera, ...

Cholera is a deadly diarrhoeal disease spread through ingesting contaminated food and water. Entirely preventable, it can kill within hours if a severe case is left untreated. The World Health ...

Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae.Though many people infected by cholera bacteria don’t become sick, the infection can sometimes cause severe, even life-threatening diarrhea and ...

To get cholera, a person needs to be exposed to a hefty dose of the bacteria that causes it, Vibrio cholerae. "As the infectious dose of V. cholerae O1 has been estimated to be 10 5 –10 8 ...