In Dhararnagar, Jamnagar, 15 cholera cases were reported, suspected to be from contaminated water. The area's been declared 'cholera-affected,' and measures include stopping water supply and repairing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers are warning that bottles of "holy water" from a well in Ethiopia could be laced with dangerous bacteria that could ...

Rajkot: At least 15 cases of cholera were confirmed in Jamnagar's Dhararnagar area over the last three days, while another 15 ...

Cholera has become a seasonal killer in one of Blantyre City’s clustered settlements, marked with blocked drains, leaking pit ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has expressed concern over the growing threat to water safety, which triggers outbreak of water-borne diseases, including cholera. Its ...

Without clean water and sanitation, disease outbreaks multiply. Cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting tropical cyclones ever recorded, carved a treacherous path in Mozambique last month that ...

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, ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, March 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cholera will continue to kill and infect Haitians as long as they lack access to clean water and sanitation, with a thousand new cases reported each ...

The bottles of holy water were absolutely teeming with the bacteria Vibrio cholerae, per the report, with an estimated 100,000 to 100 million “colony forming units,” which allowed the bacteria to ...