By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, July 10 (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak in Sudan could get worse as war, displacement and the ...
In war-torn Sudan, a deadly new cholera outbreak has already claimed more than 100 lives, heightening serious concerns for ...
Sudan has declared a new outbreak of cholera, the country's Ministry of Heath reported Monday, with 117 deaths in West Kordofan state, another seven confirmed cases and 838 suspected cases.
A cholera outbreak in jihadist-hit northeast Nigeria has killed dozens as insecurity and a lack of health infrastructure hampers the response, medical sources and local residents told AFP Friday. That ...
Police in Nigeria said they were enforcing sanitation measures in the northeastern state of Borno on Saturday, where a ...
A cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 120 people, with another 1,102 suspected cases since May in isolated war zones, the ...
A cholera outbreak that began in early May in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state has killed at ​least 74 people and infected more than 7,800, ‌overwhelming health facilities, aid group Médecins Sans ...
Vaccine production must be expanded to combat this ancient disease, especially in Africa. But a lack of political will is holding us back Hakainde Hichilema is president of Zambia. Tedros Adhanom ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
A cholera outbreak in Sudan could get worse as war, displacement and the onset of the rainy season threaten to exacerbate a ...