Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cholera kills 19 in flood-ravaged Mozambique

A cholera epidemic has killed 19 people in northern Mozambique following flooding that devastated the region, the government said Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Haiti cholera outbreak kills 132 in 2014

Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed 132 people and may have infected nearly 15,000 others so far this year, a UN agency report said Wednesday.

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Haiti's cholera epidemic still emergency: UN envoy

Haiti's cholera epidemic is still an emergency and a let up in response based on the decreasing number of cases could have "tragic consequences," a UN special envoy said Wednesday.

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Should the world be scared of Ebola?

After AIDS, SARS, avian flu and the coronavirus, now Ebola is in the headlines and sparking panic. AFP asks health historian Patrick Zylberman if the world should fear a pandemic.

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71 dead in cholera epidemic in Nigeria

A Nigerian health official says a cholera epidemic has killed 71 people and infected 2,165 since November in northern Kano state.

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Zimbabwe warned on risk of cholera outbreak

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday warned that Zimbabwe's capital Harare was at risk of repeating a cholera outbreak five years ago that killed over 4,200 people.

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Pioneering use of oral cholera vaccine during outbreak

In a report publishing October 17th, 2013 in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and its scientific research arm, ...

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