Cholera News

A rainstorm and a power failure at the local wastewater treatment plant have shut down shellfish harvesting in the Machias River, according to officials.

Via Hablemos Press, a dissident Cuban website: Se propaga nuevamente la epidemia de cA3lera .

The water inspectors were negotiating with an irate homeowner over her illegal hookup when a neighbor signaled he wanted to talk.

Following the 2012 epidemic, donors, aid workers and health officials agreed that West African countries must do more to prepare for cholera, given it recurs each year .

Via PLOS Currents Outbreaks , an important report by a team including Renaud Piarroux: The Dry Season in Haiti: a Window of Opportunity to Eliminate Cholera .

An outbreak of a disease symptomatic of cholera has affected local residents of Nepalgunj and the town's adjoining areas, downing more than 200 people as of Sunday.

Activists continue to argue that when the right to water is a human right then water ought to be free.

Cholera, a deadly diarrheal disease, has been rare in the United States since the early 1900s, but in the developing world, where access to clean drinking water is more difficult, it is still a serious problem.

The Umgeni River is one of the dirtiest rivers in the country, with recent studies showing proof of cholera, shigella, salmonella and other harmful viruses and bacteria at every sampling point between the Inanda Dam and Blue Lagoon in Durban.

Via the United Nations News Centre, a June 5 report that may rank as the most pathetic of the year: Ban appeals to philanthropists to help fight five deadly diseases, curb cholera in Haiti .

The quality of drinking water has an important role in human infection and disease.

A 14-year-old Saudi girl is the latest confirmed case of the sometimes deadly MERS virus, the WHO said Wednesday.

Cholera, a deadly diarrheal disease, has been rare in the United States since the early 1900s, but in the developing world, where access to clean drinking water is more difficult, it is still a serious problem.

The World Health Organization is warning of an increased risk of disease epidemics in Syria and neighbouring countries as summer approaches.

Over last week, I traveled across Southeast Asia, delivering clean water as part of Procter & Gamble's Clinton Global Initiative commitment in Myanmar, attending the Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur and ending my trip in Cambodia, where I saw how the Clinton Health Access Initiative is working with the government to fight HIV/AIDS and ... (more)

I was 10 or 11 when I first learned about Machu Picchu and the fabled Inca empire far to the south.

The current millennium has seen a steep rise in the number, size and case-fatalities of cholera outbreaks in many African countries.

"Before my house had a toilet, I would have to ask my grandsons to help me out into a field, hold me up, and stay with me until I was done," Krishna Devi, a 59-year-old woman with a physical disability in Nepal's southern Kapilbastu District along the border with India, told IRIN.

The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Mali's Gao region has reached 2 while 20 patients are in need of urgent medical attention, according to the United Nations Children's Fund .

Although a sputtering Russian-made truck and its crew passed through the Sevillano neighborhood picking up trash and garbage in the streets the night before, debris had once again accumulated on the street corners by morning.