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Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 Reuters reports that as a new camp capable of hosting 10,000 to 12,000 refugees in Yemen will open in a few weeks, "[m]alnutrition and the risk of a cholera outbreak ...

Severe acute malnutrition - a life-threatening condition - is much more common among children who have fled Saada province than in Yemen in general, which already has very high levels of child malnutrition.

Forget the chicken. At Poconos vaccinemaker Sanofi Pasteur, it all starts with the egg -- millions of them each week.

Nairobi - The number of Kenyans who have died since the start of the year in a cholera outbreak has risen to 89, the Red Cross Society said on Wednesday, warning water shortages could spread the disease to Nairobi.

KUALA TERENGGANU: The use of contaminated fish to make crackers, a favourite snack in the state, has been identified as among the sources of cholera outbreak Terengganu, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said.

PUTRAJAYA: Those in Terengannu suffering from diarrhoea or vomiting should seek immediate medical attention, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.

Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services.

KUALA TERENGGANU, Nov 17 -- Cholera, which was detected in the state last week, is now reported to have spread to several districts in Terengganu.

Outbreaks typically occur once a year in Africa and Latin America. But in Bangladesh the epidemics occur twice a year -- in the spring and again in the fall.

"There might be an upsurge in the incidence of typhoid and leptospirosis" "Food should be disposed of as quickly as possible or else fungus will form" PUDUCHERRY: With heavy rains causing water logging in parts of Puducherry, simple precautionary measures could prevent water-borne diseases including cholera, typhoid and leptospirosis and other ...

Gerry Brooke looks back at the life of Dr.William Budd, Bristol's pioneering public health reformer.

Kolkata: Scientists from three Indian institutes have developed a new live oral cholera vaccine from non-virulent innocuous strain, which was modified to formulate the vaccine.

Millions of adults die every year from bugs and toxins in what they eat, according to new World Health Organization data that shows food-borne diseases are far more deadly than the U.N. agency previously estimated.

Staff Reporter ICDDR,B in collaboration with the government has launched a project to assess the feasibility of using an oral cholera vaccine initially at Mirpur in the capital yesterday.

U.S. scientists say they've discovered why cholera outbreaks that occur once a year in Africa and Latin America occur twice a year in Bangladesh.

Diarrhoea kills. This tragic fact of present reality is something I first encountered long ago while working in the paediatric emergency ward as a medical student.

The charity Voices Against Cholera and Aids, founded by Frome couple Anthony and Averil Williamson eight years ago, has now raised more than 54,000 for the Red Cross in South Africa.

Washington, Nov 5 : In Bangladesh, cholera epidemics occur twice a year - in the spring and again in the fall.

Cholera, an acute diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, has reemerged as a global killer.