Healthcare workers launch the second phase of cholera vaccination amid a raging outbreak. Our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA explains why the emergency campaign matters. January 8 was a dark Thursday in ...

A Norwegian cruise ship with over 2,000 passengers and 1,000 crew on board was given permission to dock in Mauritius on Tuesday after being denied permission over fears of a potential cholera outbreak ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...

Lusaka District has recorded seven new cholera cases, with all patients currently admitted to various health facilities and ...

In the first nine months of the current Iranian year, which started in March 2025, five cholera cases have been identified in the country, according to the health ministry.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said ...

Cholera, or “the blue death” as it is sometimes called, is often thought of as a disease of the distant past. This is far from true. The world is still in the midst of a cholera pandemic, unbeknownst ...

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, ...

Cholera-related deaths and new cases continued to spike in recent days in Zimbabwe, where health and sanitation services have been deteriorating amid widespread political ...

The clinics were overwhelmed. Over just a few days in 2010, cholera had swept through the chaos of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Violently ill patients were packing wards, slumping in tents, and dying ...

Cholera has infected hundreds of thousands in Haiti since 2010. — -- As Hurricane Matthew churned off the coast of Haiti earlier this month public health officials and aid groups issued warnings ...

Cholera plagues poor countries with bad sanitation. But that fits Haiti before and after last January's devastating earthquake. So why did the disease only pop up now? "That's a million-dollar ...