Fears of a cholera outbreak have been sparked after several people in the UK have picked up the illness from contaminated holy water. The bacterial disease was in the water taken from a sacred ...

A Scots mum was hospitalised for five days after swimming with friends in contaminated water.

Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether ...

A severe case of a bacterial lung infection has been confirmed in Townsville as an outbreak continues down south, killing one ...

Ethiopia has been experiencing an ongoing cholera outbreak since 2022, with nearly 60,000 cases and 726 deaths reported. The water-bound disease has now made its way into Europe as a handful of UK and ...

Researchers are warning that bottles of "holy water" from a well in Ethiopia could be laced with dangerous bacteria that could cause cholera. As detailed in a new report published in the journal ...

It does not spread through the air, water, touch or social contact ... people acquired the disease as a result of contaminated and improperly cleaned surgical equipment. In a few other cases ...

In all, "The extension of a cholera outbreak in Africa causing a cluster of infections in Europe is unusual," the authors ...

Senate Bill 80 would have prevented new large livestock farms in the Oregon's three groundwater management areas.

Dozens of hippopotamuses have died from anthrax poisoning at Africa’s oldest national park. Anthrax, a severe illness most ...