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Cholera should no longer exist, yet it kills thousands of people every year. New analysis from international group WaterAid ...
Infectious diseases specialist Diyani Dewasurendra was on assignment in Malakal, South Sudan, when a cholera outbreak began. She goes through what happened during the first 72 hours and explains why ...
JUBA, (April 9, 2025) – At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey to seek medical treatment, after aid cuts forced their local health services to close in the ...
The UW School of Public Health and the department of environmental & occupational health sciences hosted their annual Omenn ...
A new outbreak in Angola , West Africa started on January 7, 2025, and it is likely to get worse as it spreads to more rural ...
The state has now reported a total of 541 measles cases in the ongoing outbreak that began in West Texas in January, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The outbreak has ...
A bulletin from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control noted that the well is in an area experiencing a cholera outbreak. But there is also armed conflict in the region ...
Since 7 January 2025, Angola has been responding to a cholera outbreak, with around 11 500 cases and almost 440 deaths reported as of 9 April 2025. In response, health authorities, with support from ...
Nairobi: Kenya's government urged vigilance on Wednesday as it tackles a cholera outbreak that has killed at least five people, a health ministry official said. Cholera is an acute intestinal ...
Researchers detected multidrug-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 linked to recent outbreaks in Eastern and Middle Africa in clinical specimens and the holy water. The ongoing cholera outbreak in ...
Since the cholera outbreak, Africa CDC has deployed 10 healthcare experts to support surveillance, preparedness and response, laboratory capacity, IPC, case management, and environmental surveillance.
A cholera outbreak was declared last October. More than 22,000 cases had been recorded as of last month, causing hundreds of deaths, the World Health Organization has said. REUTERS Join ST's ...