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The seventh pandemic of cholera—an easily preventable and treatable disease—has claimed millions of lives since 1961, driven ...

There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the ...

The risk of cholera spreading in Lebanon is "very high", the World Health Organization warned Wednesday, after a case of the ...

As the threat of disease looms, Israel has intensified attacks on health care, striking near a major hospital on Monday.

Cholera is a waterborne disease caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria of the serogroups 01 and 139, usually occurring due to inadequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene. This ...

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Lebanon confirmed on Wednesday the country’s first cholera case since 2022, and since the beginning of the Israeli offensive.

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Some 4.5 billion people worldwide are currently without adequate access to essential healthcare services, according to the ...

The floods – the most devastating in recent years with unprecedented scale and severity – have mainly affected Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, and displaced more than 500 000 people, ...

The world is still in its seventh cholera pandemic, which has been surging since 2021, and case rates in various countries continue to be high. | Cell And Molecular Biology ...