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

An estimated 80,000 children are at high risk of cholera as the rainy season begins across West and Central Africa, a UN ...

Ongoing violence has displaced more than 100,000 people in two regions of Somalia in the past two months, the UN Office for ...

Niger State is still grappling with cholera outbreaks, with 27 patients currently on admission across four local government ...

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

Following reports that over 327 patients had been discharged, the Niger State Government says it is still recording new cases of cholera, with 27 patients currently on admission across four local ...

The United Nations and world health community are mourning David Nabarro, the British physician and public health champion ...

Cholera, which spreads primarily through contaminated water and food, causes severe diarrhea and dehydration. The ongoing El Tor pandemic, also known as the seventh cholera pandemic, emerged in ...

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.

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 ...