Cholera News

Seven million people needed food aid earlier this year and Zimbabweans are bracing themselves for a further year of food insecurity after yet another poor harvest.

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There are so many gloomy stories about Africa, from the wars of Somalia to the cholera of Zimbabwe and the chaos of Congo, that it's important to remember how much progress has been achieved by many African countries in recent years.

Bangalore: Contrary to the claims of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike that the incidence of vector-borne diseases in the city has come down, hospitals are recording hundreds of suspected chikungunya and dengue cases.

HEADLINES author/source:Cape Argus "They need the support of the system right now and the system isn't there" Meghan McCarthy The image that stuck was the boy pumping water from a well in the middle of a desiccated maize field - a trickle of life in a landscape of ruin.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Genetics Water - Air Quality / Agriculture It is based on detecting short, repetitive DNA segments in the genome of bacteria.

Shortages of medicine and other supplies heighten the risk that epidemics of cholera, malaria and other infectious diseases could threaten people who fled the army's ongoing assault against the Taliban.

Researchers from Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research , Germany, develop new method for better diagnostic of diarrhea causing bacteria.

USAID announced on Thursday a $1 million commitment to a Red Cross project aimed at helping those "living along southern Africa's Zambezi River cope with worsening natural disasters because of climate change," the AP/Washington Post reports.

By Arun Anand, Pathar Pratima , June 28 : Almost a month after the devastating cyclone Aila hit the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest abutting the Bay of Bengal, another disaster is waiting to happen: thousands of residents are living in several island villages without food, water and basic hygiene.

Main Category: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 27 Jun 2009 - 1:00 PDT The stomach ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori is not transmitted through drinking water as previously thought, but rather through vomit and possibly faeces.

Artist Jane Powell has received an award for a piece of her work on display at the Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry.

The public health ministry has put the number of people who have died from cholera related illnesses in the month of June at 38 dismissing media reports that 82 people had succumbed to the disease.

Muslims unload rice at the port of Sittwe, in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state. Nearly 1 million ethnic Rohingya Muslims live in the state, though many are fleeing repression by Myanmar's regime.

Caption: Mugo said the prevailing water shortage in the city was frustrating efforts to contain the disease.

NYU economist, FP contributor and aid critic extraordinaire William Easterly says no: The only useful definition of human rights is one where a human rights crusader could identify WHOSE rights are being violated and WHO is the violator.

Morgan Tsvangirai is due to arrive in London today as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.

Christian Aid has launched a major appeal to support the thousands of Zimbabweans who are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.

Recommend The world will tomorrow turn its attention to the plight of children who live in some of the poorest countries on earth as it marks the Day of the African Child.

Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare, has purchased water treatment chemicals from the World Health Organisation , the Herald reported today.