A PENSIONER died from a cholera-like disease after fears his death could have been the first from the illness in Britain for ...

The global cholera vaccine supply is finally high enough to allow regular vaccination campaigns to resume after a three-year ...

The World Health Organization has announced the restart of preventive cholera vaccination programs globally after they were ...

A pensioner has died from a cholera-like disease a century after the epidemic was wiped out in the UK. The dad-of-two, who ...

Cholera, or “the blue death” as it is sometimes called, is often thought of as a disease of the distant past. This is far from true. The world is still in the midst of a cholera pandemic, unbeknownst ...

The clinics were overwhelmed. Over just a few days in 2010, cholera had swept through the chaos of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Violently ill patients were packing wards, slumping in tents, and dying ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...

A pandemic emerges. It spreads around the world, claims lives and devastates economies for decades. Climate change makes it even deadlier. It infects hundreds of millions of people and kills millions, ...

Cholera has infected hundreds of thousands in Haiti since 2010. — -- As Hurricane Matthew churned off the coast of Haiti earlier this month public health officials and aid groups issued warnings ...

Global cholera vaccine supply has now increased to a level sufficient to allow the resumption of life-saving preventive ...

The bacteria—V cholerae—colonize the small intestine where they secrete a potent enterotoxin. This toxin does not damage the intestinal lining but leads to the overproduction of cyclic AMP, which ...

The disease was eradicated from Britain in the 1860s and is today mainly found in the poorest parts of Asia and Africa ...