Prompt treatment like this "lowers the fatality rate of cholera to less than 1%," says Nagata. While clean water and basic medical interventions are easy to provide in developed countries ...

If you can't eat because of the stomach pain and vomiting that comes with cholera, your blood sugar may drop too low. Low blood sugar can cause symptoms like seizures, passing out, and even death ...

She recalls what it was like to treat patients during Zambia’s worst cholera epidemic last year. “We had no option but to source nurses from other wards. Even midwives ended up being recruited ...

A vast cholera plague swept through the entire United ... public health departments or vaccines. Like a prairie fire, the epidemic slowly moved from New Orleans, through Memphis and St. Louis ...

Cholera bacteria use hair-like appendages called pili to attach to surfaces. In this image, the pili are labeled with a fluorescent green dye. (Image credit: Fitnat Yildiz and Kyle Floyd) ...

The CHOLERA EPIDEMIC OF 1832 began in May when an immigrant ship landed at Quebec with cases of Asiatic cholera aboard. The disease spread through the city and quickly up the St. Lawrence River valley ...

A deadly cholera outbreak has struck Kosti, a city in southern Sudan, claiming the lives of at least 58 people and infecting over 1,300 in just three days. The sudden rise in cases has alarmed ...

The key variable is how likely someone is to spread the disease to other people, which in turn depends on factors like population density and sanitation infrastructure. In cases where cholera spreads ...