A PENSIONER died from a cholera-like disease after fears his death could have been the first from the illness in Britain for ...

The Government of Japan has donated emergency medical supplies worth approximately $1.7 million to the Lagos State Government ...

Lagos State has received a fresh shipment of $1.7 million emergency medical supplies from the Government of Japan to ...

Cholera, or “the blue death” as it is sometimes called, is often thought of as a disease of the distant past. This is far from true. The world is still in the midst of a cholera pandemic, unbeknownst ...

A Norwegian cruise ship with over 2,000 passengers and 1,000 crew on board was given permission to dock in Mauritius on Tuesday after being denied permission over fears of a potential cholera outbreak ...

Vaccine programs were previously halted due to a vaccine shortage ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...

The clinics were overwhelmed. Over just a few days in 2010, cholera had swept through the chaos of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Violently ill patients were packing wards, slumping in tents, and dying ...

Cholera has infected hundreds of thousands in Haiti since 2010. — -- As Hurricane Matthew churned off the coast of Haiti earlier this month public health officials and aid groups issued warnings ...

A pandemic emerges. It spreads around the world, claims lives and devastates economies for decades. Climate change makes it even deadlier. It infects hundreds of millions of people and kills millions, ...

Mozambique officially declares a cholera epidemic as health authorities battle simultaneous outbreaks across several regions.

He stressed that ongoing capacity-building efforts targeting food vendors, water vendors and waste workers would ...