While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, ...

A day after the holiday on which most everyone pretends to be Irish, the notion of anti-Irish bias seems more laughable than a Mike-and-Pat joke. But in 1849, with Springfield enduring a cholera ...

A cholera infection doesn't have to be deadly, but it can be, especially in conflict zones such as in Sudan. A year into an ongoing outbreak, Sudan has so far recorded more than 65,000 cholera cases — ...

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 ...

In the mid-2000s, researchers showed that as cholera bacteria multiplied in waters during outbreaks, viruses that preyed on ...