United Nations officials are warning that an estimated 80,000 children in West and Central Africa could be at high risk of ...

Some 80,000 children are estimated to be at high risk of cholera in West and Central Africa as the rainy season begins across ...

An estimated 80,000 children are at severe risk of cholera as heavy rains sweep across West and Central Africa, exacerbating ...

Oral cholera vaccine doses are seen during a vaccination campaign in Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 8, 2022. Sazzad Hossain/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty ...

Following reports that over 327 patients had been discharged, the Niger State Government says it is still recording new cases ...

The United Nations and world health community are mourning the death of David Nabarro, the British physician and public health champion who led the U.N response to eradicating cholera in Haiti after ...

Outbreaks in Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria raise threat of cross-border transmission, says UN agency - Anadolu ...

THE United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has the second highest cases of cholera outbreak in West and Central ...

Leaders in Amuru district have expressed concerns over the continued silence of the Health Ministry regarding a cholera ...

Cholera was first identified in 1817, seemingly emerging from the swamps of the Ganges Delta in India. Since then, it has been responsible for 50 million deaths worldwide.

Cholera cases have surged this year and the disease could be making an “unwelcome comeback” as war, poverty and climate change create ideal conditions for it to spread, warned World Health ...

But in 1832, people believed cholera was linked to intemperance and vice, which were thought to weaken the body. According to the prevailing miasma theory, it caused outbreaks once airborne.