Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Running rings around cholera outbreaks

Targeting vaccine and other interventions to those in the vicinity of people with cholera could be an effective way to control cholera outbreaks, which can have devastating effects after disasters and in other emergency settings, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cholera: worst epidemics of past decade

The cholera epidemic in Yemen, where it is afflicting one million people according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, ranks among the world's worst of the past decade.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mozambique cholera outbreak infects over 1,200

Mozambique is battling a cholera outbreak that has infected 1,222 people and killed two, the country's health ministry said Tuesday, warning that it has been unable to slow its spread.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Fighting cholera by predicting how it spreads

In October, EPFL and Médecins Sans Frontières joined forces in an unprecedented effort to predict how the cholera epidemic in Haiti will spread. Their projections are now used by organizations battling the epidemic on the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Haiti fights losing battle against cholera

Plastic-sheeted cots for men, women and children are crammed side by side in a former hangar. At the cholera treatment center in the Haitian city of Carrefour, the sick have no privacy.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

UN struggles to stem new rise in Haiti cholera cases

A deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti that experts say was introduced by UN peacekeepers from Nepal is on the rise, with hundreds of new cases registered weekly, a UN official said Thursday.

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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