Cholera cases have surged this year and the disease could be making an “unwelcome comeback” as war, poverty and climate change create ideal conditions for it to spread, warned World Health ...

A comprehensive study that took over 20 years to develop has explained the tradeoff that the cholera bacteria faces when ...

A Norwegian cruise ship with over 2,000 passengers and 1,000 crew on board was given permission to dock in Mauritius on Tuesday after being denied permission over fears of a potential cholera outbreak ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...

The clinics were overwhelmed. Over just a few days in 2010, cholera had swept through the chaos of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Violently ill patients were packing wards, slumping in tents, and dying ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has issued a public health advisory warning of a heightened risk of cholera and other disease ...

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 ...

EPFL researchers show that cholera bacteria can exchange protective genes, including antiviral immune systems, when they live in aquatic environments. The finding helps explain how these pathogens ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cholera, a deadly diarrheal disease, has been rare in the United States since the early 1900s, but in the developing world, where access to clean drinking water is more difficult, it is still a ...