Recent disease modeling research challenges public health guidelines recommending conservative antibiotic use for cholera, suggesting that for some outbreaks, prescribing antibiotics more aggressively ...

CAIRO (AP) — A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan, killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week. Centered around Khartoum, the disease has spread as many ...

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.

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year-and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...

Access to clean water and good sanitation is crucial to staying healthy and well. The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the ...

A 19th century doctor was able to pinpoint which homes were affected by contaminated water, and link that to cholera deaths in the area. The following is an excerpt from Mapmatics: A Mathematician’s ...

Models suggest that in some cases, expanded antibiotic use could slow outbreaks and even reduce the overall risk of antibiotic resistance by decreasing the number of people infected. Cholera kills ...

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year—and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...