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The World Health Organization calls cholera a disease of poverty, as it thrives where there is poor sanitation and a lack of ...
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Five children were among eight people who died ...
On 12th January 2010, Haiti was hit by a powerful earthquake with the epicentre about 25 km from the capital Port-au-Prince. The death toll was well over a 100,000 people, and some estimates put the ...
The first and second chapters deal with the history of cholera-epidemics and their lessons, and the epidemiology of the disease. In chapter iii. the etiology and prophylaxis of the disease are ...
(As portrayed by Benoit Girard in Canada: A People's History) Three days later, cholera took its first victim. The illness spread like wildfire all the way to Montreal and then to Upper Canada.
Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, adding that laboratory confirmation of the disease was "a major ...
Scotland's History Land and Votes The fight against cholera The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page ...
Preventable diseases are sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Cholera cases increased by 326, Mpox by 269, and measles by 95 people in North Kivu alone, during the last week of February, ...
Earlier this month, UK authorities confirmed four cases of cholera, an infection that was common in the Victorian era. Caused by unclean water, the illness was eradicated in the UK more than 100 ...
sanitation, and hygiene services, targeted oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaigns, risk communication, and community engagement. The cholera outbreak in 2010 was described as the worst in recent ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Five children were among eight people who died from cholera in South Sudan after aid cuts are forcing patients to walk for hours to the nearest clinics, an aid organization ...
DAKAR (Reuters) -Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years ... health ministry said the patient had no ...