The bacteria—V cholerae—colonize the small intestine where they secrete a potent enterotoxin. This toxin does not damage the intestinal lining but leads to the overproduction of cyclic AMP, which ...

Cholera is an acute bacterial disease. It causes severe acute watery diarrhoea, vomiting, and dehydration which leads to death, if not treated on time. [iStockphoto] At least six deaths and 271 new ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Traders selling food next to a pile of garbage in Muthurwa market, Nairobi. Cholera ...

Cholera has claimed at least 40 lives in Sudan's Darfur region over the last week as the country weathers its worst outbreak of in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. At a cholera ...

A devastating Cholera epidemic has killed five people and hospitalised 60 in Lagos, prompting the state administration to increase attention and implement preventive measures. In a statement issued on ...

Elderly UK man dies after cholera scare; tests find non-toxigenic strain. No public risk, say officials, as WHO highlights vaccines and sanitation as key defenses.

An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable ...

A pensioner in his 80s has died from a suspected case of cholera at a hospital in the Midlands - believed to be Britain's ...