Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year—and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...

CAIRO (AP) — A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan, killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week. Centered around Khartoum, the disease has spread as many ...

Africa is facing the worst outbreak of cholera in 25 years, a health agency in the continent has warned. The rise in infections has been blamed on both fragile water systems and conflict. Africa CDC ...

Cholera, caused by Vibrio cholerae, spreads through contaminated water and thrives where sanitation systems have collapsed.

The Associated Press / People fill water containers Sunday at a distribution point due to water outages in Khartoum, Sudan. CAIRO — A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and sickened ...

A cholera outbreak has infected more than 600 people at an artisanal gold mine in South Kivu province, overwhelming local health services and exposing severe sanitation challenges in the conflict-hit ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its global cholera statistics for 2024, showing an increase in both the number of people who fell sick and died from the disease. Reported cholera ...

Reports of multiple cases of cholera across the country are troubling. Several people have died. Yet the government does not seem capable of rising to the occasion on the matter. It has become widely ...

WINDHOEK, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Namibia declared a new cholera outbreak in the country's north-central town of Grootfontein, marking the country's second outbreak this year, health authorities said on ...

CAIRO (AP) — A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan, killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week. Centered around Khartoum, the disease has spread as many ...

Recent disease modeling research challenges public health guidelines recommending conservative antibiotic use for cholera, suggesting that for some outbreaks, prescribing antibiotics more aggressively ...