In west and central Africa, heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by ...

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 civil war rages on in Sudan, in addition to food shortages, residents in the capital Khartoum are grappling with a ...

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 ...

And yet against all odds, we’ve been able to administer the first doses of the polio vaccine to 559,161 children. I have been ...

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

Today's health news includes a Biden proposal for health insurers to cover OTC birth control like Plan B and condoms.

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

The International Rescue Committee is warning a sharp increase in cholera cases has emerged in the wake of recent floods in Nigeria and Niger, and is calling for increased resources to scale up ...