Cholera outbreaks often occur in disaster ... pretty close to the place where people fetch their water, so there is a transmission of contamination between the toilets and the water that people ...

So if people are practising open defecation (associated with poor hand washing or water course contamination and transmission by flies), or if infrastructure is damaged after a natural disaster, then ...

Cholera is a bacterial infection that's caused by a microbe that thrives in water. People who become seriously ill with cholera may become dehydrated very quickly due to explosive diarrhea and ...

Waterborne transmission is part of a cultural vector ... [For] example, the bacteria that cause cholera are often waterborne. Bacteria that cause typhoid fever are often waterborne.

Angola is facing a worsening cholera outbreak, with 8,543 cases and 329 deaths recorded across 16 of its 21 provinces as of ...

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Dr. Ngashi Ngongo, the Principal Advisor to the Director General of Africa CDC on Programs, represented H.E. Dr. Jean Kaseya at the official handover ceremony in Luanda.

Angola is grappling with a severe cholera outbreak that has spread across 16 of its 21 provinces, infecting 8,543 people and ...

UNITED NATIONS (CMC) — Nearly 15 years after Haiti experienced a cholera outbreak that infected ... raising concerns about undetected community transmission. Haq said the government in Haiti ...

The Central Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has begun an exercise to vaccinate more than half a ...

Angola's cholera outbreak has now claimed 329 lives, the World Health Organization said Saturday, warning that the risk of further transmission in the country and surrounding areas was "very high".