Cholera

The following is adapted from Chapter 4 of the author’s book “Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe.” When cholera broke out in London ...

JOHANNESBURG—The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Malawi has crossed 1,300, a senior Malawian health official said ...

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BLANTYRE, Malawi—Malawi has delayed the opening of public schools in the southern African country's two major cities of ...

GENEVA—There have been 16 confirmed deaths from cholera in Haiti and 32 confirmed cases, a United Nations spokesperson ...

BLANTYRE—Cholera has spread to 22 of Malawi's 28 districts, killing 110 people and infecting 3,891 people since March ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Haiti’s government on Sunday announced that at least eight people have died from cholera, raising concerns about ...

GENEVA—Cholera cases have surged this year, especially in places of poverty and conflict, with outbreaks reported in 26 ...

AMMAN—Syria said on Monday that 29 people had died of cholera in what the United Nations has called ...

BEIJING—Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was ...

Health authorities in central China’s megacity Wuhan confirmed a rare case of cholera on Monday days after a ...

A Washington Post headline recently declared, “85,000 Yemeni children have starved to death during the Saudi-led intervention in ...

A sick child triggered a cholera scare on board a Boeing 737 flight heading from Algeria to southern ...

The United Nations has, at long last, accepted some responsibility that it played a part in a cholera ...

What happens when a humanitarian organization meant to protect people instead causes them grave harm?

At least 29 people have died in South Sudan's latest cholera outbreak, the U.N. children's agency said Friday

Researchers have examined the skeletal remains of 17th century graves in northwestern Poland and have speculated that the ...

After the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti several months ago, Haiti suffered another devastating blow, a cholera epidemic that ...

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Nigeria's Federal government Wednesday indicated that the country is at risk for a cholera outbreak.

A cholera outbreak recently spread to Haikou, the capital of China's Hainan Province, forcing the quarantine of Hainan ...

An eight-year-old girl died of complications due to a Cholera outbreak in Hainan Province in late October 2008. ...