While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics ...

At least six people in the UK and Germany ended up in the hospital after consuming water from the Bermel Georgis holy well in ...

A team of United States-based scientists and engineers have developed a mobile phone app that predicts and maps cholera, a contagious and sometimes deadly disease that in the past killed millions ...

In 1848, there was a second outbreak of cholera in London ... air but through tainted water supplies. Dr Snow's map showing the cases of cholera in Broad Street, London, 1854.

Health authorities, scientists, and aid agencies now recognise this unprecedented rise in cholera as another example of how extreme weather fuels disease ... the second-most affected region.