As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A single dose of killed oral cholera vaccine provided short-term protection from newly endemic cholera, while the complete two-dose vaccination conferred long-term protection, a ...

Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections ...

A highly drug-resistant strain of cholera has been found in patients around the world, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The World Health Organization has estimated ...

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 ...

Cholera is a deadly bacterial disease that kills about 95,000 people every year. Vibrio cholerae bacteria infect cells in the small intestine, which the bacteria can do in part due to their ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia is reeling from a major cholera outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 10,000, leading authorities to order schools across the country to ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - South Sudan's cholera crisis is waning but humanitarian workers are now battling increased cases of malaria and the parasitic disease kala azar, with children ...

During a cholera outbreak in 1968 in villages east of Dhaka, two young public health specialists began giving desperately ill patients liter after liter of a simple formula: salt and sugar dissolved ...