Nigeria is facing a growing outbreak of cholera, which has already taken about 39 lives and infected 4204 people. The ...

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, ...

South Africa has experienced outbreaks of cholera since January. The worst was in May in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, where nearly 30 people died. Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads via ...

The Borno State Government has directed the immediate activation of cholera prevention and control protocols in schools to curb the spread of the disease.The directive followed a cholera outbreak that ...

Amid an outbreak of cholera in the region, children rinse their hands at a camp for Syrian refugees in Talhayat, Lebanon – Copyright AFP/File ANGELA WEISS, MANDEL ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cholera will continue to kill and infect Haitians as long as they lack access to clean water and sanitation, with a thousand new cases reported each week, health ...

Without clean water and sanitation, disease outbreaks multiply. Cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting tropical cyclones ever recorded, carved a treacherous path in Mozambique last month that ...

Malawi's worsening cholera crisis is the result of long-term neglect of the country's water supplies and water testing urgently needed, specialists say. Malawi has been dealing with a cholera outbreak ...

BusinessDay had earlier reported that at least 39 people have been confirmed dead, with 4,204 cases of cholera recorded ...

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 ...

Nigeria's cholera outbreak worsens with 5,260 cases and 67 deaths. Children under five are most affected. Learn about the ...