The vomiting and diarrhea encourage the spread of the pathogen within households and contaminate local water sources. Left untreated, cholera kills 40% of its victims, sometimes within hours of the ...

Experts have used a cutting-edge computational approach to discover the genetic factors that make the bacteria behind cholera so dangerous - which could be key to preventing this deadly disease. The ...

Cholera is on the rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here’s how you can help UNICEF protect the lives of children at risk. A UNICEF-supported health worker disinfects a house for cholera in ...

In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of Africa barely a month apart. Sixty-four people died. Amid an already heavy rainy season ...

Traders selling food next to a pile of garbage in Muthurwa market, Nairobi. Cholera spreads quickly and widely in such cramped, dirty conditions. [File, Standard] Nairobi County Health Department ...