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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Okafor said the cholera pandemic has killed eleven persons and has left about six people in critical condition. “The first day that the cholera outbreak occurred, three deaths were recorded.

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 ...

Cholera is making a comeback. A new outbreak in Angola, West Africa, started on Jan. 7, and is likely to get worse as it spreads to more rural regions. Thus far this year, there have been ...

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 ...