Cholera cases have surged this year and the disease could be making an “unwelcome comeback” as war, poverty and climate change create ideal conditions for it to spread, warned World Health ...

Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have uncovered what gives Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes ...

The epidemic began four years ago with a savage invasion of the Philippines, and the marauding microbes steadily expanded their area of attack. Java, Sumatra, Thailand, the Indian subcontinent, all ...

Despite efforts to improve the availability of safe water and adequate sanitation, cholera continues to kill more than 100,000 people around the world every year. To combat this needless suffering, ...

Haiti on Sunday said at least seven people have died of cholera in a surprise return of the disease that comes as the nation is paralyzed by a gang blockade that has triggered shortages of fuel and ...

A new report from the American Academy of Microbiology examines how attribution science is measuring the infectious disease burden caused by climate change.

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 ...

The bacteria—V cholerae—colonize the small intestine where they secrete a potent enterotoxin. This toxin does not damage the intestinal lining but leads to the overproduction of cyclic AMP, which ...

It is feared that a pensioner has passed away after contracting cholera - in what would be the first case of its kind in Britain for 125 years. The unnamed father of two, who was in his 80s, died on ...

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 ...