Although oral cholera vaccines exist, the recent spike in cases and limited production capacity have outpaced the global vaccine supply, prompting researchers to explore alternative protection ...

Cholera, an infection that causes severe diarrhea and can be deadly, is once more spreading in several low-income countries. In its latest update on the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

The moment Yolette Berdovil saw her baby son Jean's watery diarrhea, she knew what she had to do. She called for help. Jean was quickly transported by motorbike to the Acute Diarrhea Treatment Center ...

Cholera is an acute diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with Vibrio cholerae. People can get sick when they swallow food or water contaminated with cholera bacteria. A new study ...

Crofelemer previously granted orphan-drug designation by the FDA and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for both short bowel syndrome and microvillus inclusion disease SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE ...

The role that flies play in spreading cholera—a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration—has been underestimated in Africa, which carries the largest burden of the disease. In a ...

Despite efforts to improve the availability of safe water and adequate sanitation, cholera continues to kill more than 100,000 people around the world every year. To combat this needless suffering, ...

Many parts of the world are in the midst of a deadly pandemic of cholera, an extreme form of watery diarrhea. Scientists have discovered specific gut bacteria make some people resistant to it -- a ...

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, ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG — Cholera cases in Mozambique among survivors of a devastating cyclone have shot up to 139, officials said, as nearly 1 million vaccine doses were rushed to the region and health workers ...

Cholera can kill within hours if left untreated, and it sickens as many as 4 million people a year. In a new article in the journal Cell, researchers describe how gut bacteria helps people resist the ...