Cholera News

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.

As the smoking-ban debate has raged on, I've heard everything from patriotism to treating our citizens as responsible adults as reasons to continue the status quo.

The study showed only 16.8% households in the midwestern region use toilets, well below the national average which itself is dismal at 23.3%. The cholera outbreak, which started from Jajarkot district in the midwestern region in April, had claimed around 300 lives in the region including 154 in Jajarkot alone.

When ghost town fans write me or talk to me, the first question has to do with a particular town.

A United States-based organisation is working in partnership with the Fiji Water Foundation to install a water filter in every home in Fiji in 10 years.

Tanzanians have made significant progress since independence, but the struggle, as they say, continues, for ours is still counted among the world's ten poorest countries.

The political disarray in Zimbabwe's eight-month-old unity government is putting the country's most vulnerable people at risk, humanitarian relief experts say.

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Author affiliations: Yiaco Medical Company, Ahmadi, Kuwait ; and Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine, Jabriya, Kuwait To the Editor: The traditional causative agent of cholera, Vibrio cholerae O1, has 2 biotypes, classical and El Tor.

"Survivors of two powerful storms that caused widespread destruction in the Philippines in recent weeks are threatened by outbreaks of potentially life-threatening diseases, as the country braces for another super-typhoon," named Lupit, that is expected to make landfall on Thursday, the Guardian reports.

Five deaths from cholera have been reported in the past week in the Zimbabwean provinces of Mashonaland West and Midlands, raising fears that the onset of the rains could lead to a repeat of the cholera epidemic that claimed thousands of lives in the past year.

Main Category: Tropical Diseases Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail ; HIV / AIDS ; Aid / Disasters Article Date: 21 Oct 2009 - 4:00 PDT A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has infected more than 100, resulting in five deaths, state media said Tuesday, Reuters reports, "raising fears of a repeat of last year's epidemic that claimed more than 4,000 ...

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A FATHER who set up a charity for the worlda s poorest children with his wife said visiting Zimbabwe stirred the full range of emotions.

Despite spending most of his time in natural disaster zones, Chippenham charity worker Ben Pickering said there is not a more rewarding job in the world.