Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which can lead to rapid dehydration and death if not treated promptly. The disease is primarily transmitted through ...

Mr . Edwin Afotey Ablade Odai, the Tema Metro Disease Control Officer, has cautioned the public against self-medicating when ...

Cholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by the consumption of the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae in contaminated food or ...

BEIJING--Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from softshell turtles at a food market has struck a sensitive ...

By the time of Tchaikovsky's death in 1893, the cholera bacterium had been isolated (by Filippo Pacini in 1854 and separately by Robert Koch in 1883) and people were educated in the boiling of ...

A man admitted to intensive care after returning from Nigeria.

Biofilms are complex, three-dimensional structures of living bacteria embedded in a slimy matrix. "In Vibrio cholerae, the cholera-causing pathogen, even a brief exposure to cell wall fragments ...

Islamabad and Rawalpindi's drinking water supply has been revealed to be contaminated with sewer water, with 90 per cent of ...

Chennai: Water-borne diseases, mostly caused by contaminated water and food, peaked in the city in Dec, indicating poor ...

Cholera topped the list of disease outbreaks in Africa last year as a warming world increased both flooding and droughts in countries with the lowest health spending and fewest resources — often ...

Ghana is currently battling a cholera outbreak that began in October 2024, with the first case reported in the Greater Accra ...