In the world of epidemiology, a figure named John Snow emerged as a real-life hero who revolutionised disease control. During the Victorian era in 1854, when London was plagued by the ravaging third ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, ...

Disease has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. Luckily, medicine has evolved and continues to do so, and diseases that were once fatal are now treatable and even preventable. But now and then an ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cholera epidemic that has killed 1,110 people and sickened thousands in Haiti is part of a 49-year-old global pandemic and likely was brought to the Caribbean country in a ...

Cholera is contracted by consuming food or water contaminated with the bacteria Vibrio cholerae. The bacteria is usually found in water contaminated with feces. Dehydration from rapid loss of body ...

Raw sewage flowing next to an informal settlement in Line-Saba, Langata, Nairobi. [Phillip Orwa, Standard] In the world of epidemiology, a figure named John Snow emerged as a real-life hero who ...