Spread This NewsBy Staff Reporter  A CHOLERA outbreak is threatening to devastate the resort town of Kariba, Mashonaland West ...

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FIVE people have died and over 500 hospitalised in special treatment camps in the Ikungi District, Singida Region due to a ...

THE reappearance of cholera in an epidemic form in European countries after a comparatively long absence is a matter of considerable concern, not only on account of the severity of the existing ...

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During a cholera outbreak in 1968 in villages east of Dhaka, two young public health specialists began giving desperately ill patients liter after liter of a simple formula: salt and sugar ...

In the late 1960s, he went to Dhaka to work on cholera. There he became involved in the development of oral rehydration ...

Two people have died as a result of a cholera outbreak in the Ada enclave; the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reports that 43 cases have been documented thus far. The Ada East and Ada West districts ...

KHARTOUM, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese Ministry of Health said Saturday that a vaccination campaign targeting more than 1.4 million people against cholera kicked off in eastern and northern ...

In September, 47,234 new cholera cases were reported from 14 countries Cholera can kill within hours when not treated, though it can be treated with simple oral rehydration, and antibiotics for ...

GENEVA, Switzerland - There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the shortage jeopardizing work to stop the disease's spread.

Some 4.5 billion people worldwide are currently without adequate access to essential healthcare services, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This comes as more than 100,000 cases of ...