Health minister Dr Esperance Luvindao officially declared cholera an outbreak in the Opuwo district of the Kunene region, for which six of the eight cases were reported to be from one household.The ...

Health-funding cuts are wreaking havoc on many African countries' ability to gain control of diseases such as cholera, ...

Cholera is a bacterial infection that's caused by a microbe that thrives in water. People who become seriously ill with cholera may become dehydrated very quickly due to acute watery diarrhea and ...

Cholera, an infectious disease often found in countries with poor sanitation, is still found in many parts of the world. (Photo Credit: Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Cholera, first found in ...

In partnership with the International Center of Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh, the lab investigates epidemic Vibrio cholerae, a bacterium that causes cholera infections in humans.

preventing infection stops a disease before it begins, keeping people healthy and preventing the spread of the germ to others. In the case of cholera, which is caused by the bacterium Vibrio ...

preventing infection stops a disease before it begins, keeping people healthy and preventing the spread of the germ to others. In the case of cholera, which is caused by the bacterium Vibrio ...

A single-dose regiment of the cholera vaccine does not provide immunity against the disease for as long as a two-dose regiment and is less effective at providing immunity to children. However ...

A simple field test can distinguish cholera from other forms of diarrhea, but only after symptoms have already appeared. And although existing vaccines can prevent the disease, they require two or ...

Cholera can kill a person in a matter of hours. It's a severe gastro-intestinal disease, and it can trigger so much diarrhea and vomiting that patients can rapidly become dehydrated. They lose so ...

cholerae, cholera-specific bacteriophage and/or coproantibodies in stools of healthy and mildly symptomatic individuals should reveal a much higher prevalence of inapparent infection than is ...