African biostatisticians have found cholera does not spread only through contaminated water or direct contact with infected people but can also be rapidly transmitted by flies, making outbreaks faster ...

Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether a disease is endemic—persisting in a particular location for an extended ...

The role that flies play in spreading cholera—a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration—has been underestimated in Africa, which carries the largest burden of the disease. In a ...

Cholera is an acute bacterial infection transmitted through water. It manifests itself as sudden and severe diarrhoea, which can cause severe dehydration in a short period of time and, if untreated, ...

Medically reviewed by Jordana Haber Hazan, MD Key Takeaways Safe water practices and handwashing can help prevent ...

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year—and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America. When we ...

Public health strategies, from vaccination to improving sanitary conditions, may have different impacts depending on whether a disease is endemic - persisting in a particular location for an extended ...

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year-and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...