A team of US-based scientists and engineers have developed a mobile phone app that predicts and maps cholera, a contagious and sometimes deadly disease that in past killed millions of people and ...

In September (2024), the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the world saw 13% more cholera cases in 2023 than in 2022, while deaths from the diseases surged up by 71% to more than 4,000.

By Abujah RachealThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) issued an urgent alert on Friday, warning of ...

The DRC cholera outbreak is by far the world's deadliest. Last year, more than 17,000 cases of cholera were recorded in the DRC. The 2019 cholera death toll is three times higher than it was in 2009.

A cholera outbreak at an artisanal gold mine in South Kivu province has infected more than 600 people, overwhelming local ...

Haiti grapples with deadly cholera outbreak 01:41. Geneva — A shortage of cholera vaccines has forced a temporary shift to a one-dose strategy, from the usual two, in campaigns to fight a ...

A cholera patient is seen inside an isolation ward at the Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe central Malawi, Jan. 11, 2023. Thoko Chikondi/AP Brazzaville — The deadliest cholera outbreak in Malawi 's ...

A major cholera outbreak, thought to have started at a popular Lexington tavern, killed about 7% of the city’s population in ...

Zambia is facing a severe cholera outbreak, with over 400 deaths and more than 10,000 infections. The government has closed schools nationwide, officials say.

The cholera outbreak that has killed at least 775 people in Zimbabwe is part of an epidemic that has been afflicting Africa for three decades, according to the U.S. Dec. 11, 2008 ...

The cholera epidemic in Yemen is now the largest and fastest growing outbreak of the disease in modern history — the result of a crippling war that has devastated the country, long the poorest ...

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 ...