The role that flies play in spreading cholera—a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration—has been ...

New research shows that flies may be a fuelling Africa’s worst cholera outbreak in 25 years. They do this by carrying the ...

The southern African nation of Malawi has started a cholera vaccination rollout this week in a bid to stem the threat of a disease that kills tens of thousands of people globally each year.

The local authorities in Duk County, Jonglei State, have raised an alarm over a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak affecting ...

A common myth during many plagues, but most specifically the bubonic plague, was that only the poor got sick and died. This classist ideology had people believing for centuries that the wealthy were ...

Shock and anger are growing as suspected cholera cases jumped from 211 to 280 in just one week, a sharp 32.7 percent increase, raising fresh fears that Malawi is sliding into another deadly outbreak ...

The death toll in Mozambique is expected to rise. Officials said the flooding was the worst in the country since 2000, when about 700 people were killed. Almost 400,000 people have been displaced, ...

Disinfecting drinking water prevents the spread of deadly waterborne diseases by killing infectious agents such as bacteria, ...

Heavy rains and recurrent flooding have heightened the risk of a cholera outbreak prompting Ministry of Health and Child Care to issue a public alert and urge citizens to take immediate preventive ...

Hundreds of families are homeless after the Makoko demolition, forcing children to miss vital immunisations and face a severe ...

WASHINGTON — Five months after the Trump administration stripped $8 billion in U.S. foreign aid from the world, a Sudanese National Army helicopter bombed a hospital, pharmacy and market in a remote ...