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Though many people infected by cholera bacteria don’t become sick, the infection can sometimes cause severe, even life-threatening diarrhea and vomiting. Improved sanitation has greatly reduced ...
Angola's cholera outbreak has now claimed 329 lives, the World Health Organization said Saturday, warning that the risk of further transmission in the country and surrounding areas was "very high.
Three people in Germany and four in the UK fell ill with cholera after directly drinking or splashing their faces with the holy water. Two required intensive care. Luckily, they all eventually ...
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 NHS notes that while cholera is not present in the UK, it's possible to contract the infection when travelling to areas lacking clean water supplies. Cholera can be contracted by drinking ...
Mr Faith Dube, the Red Cross Society International Cholera Surge Delegate to Ghana ... and disposing of waste properly to break the transmission cycle of the disease. He emphasised the critical need ...
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 infection ...
April 20, 2025 (KHARTOUM) – At least three people have died and 68 others have been infected in a cholera outbreak in the Al-Kalakla area south of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, a local emergency ...
Angola received 2,000 life-saving oral cholera vaccines for frontline healthcare workers from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in March 2025. Dr. Ngashi Ngongo ...
Year after year, Cycle PH continues to thrive, attracting fitness enthusiasts, corporate teams and well-known personalities, including cycling advocates and Sun Life ambassadors Piolo Pascual and ...
The complex life cycle begins with tiny larvae that settle on solid surfaces and develop into sessile polyps. Through a process called strobilation, these polyps release free-swimming juvenile ...
THE International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) has called for quick intervention by stakeholders and government to curb the imminent spread of cholera across Zimbabwe’s provinces.