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6 days ago · What to know. Cholera is preventable and treatable. However, the disease kills tens of thousands of people around the world every year. People living in places without safe water, sanitation, and hygiene are at highest risk of cholera. Cholera in Africa.
1 day ago · Cholera pandemics in the 19th and 20th centuries led to the growth of epidemiology as a science and in recent years it has continued to press advances in the concepts of disease ecology, basic membrane biology, and transmembrane signaling and in the use of scientific information and treatment design.
5 days ago · The cholera response continues to be affected by a critical shortage of Oral Cholera Vaccines (OCV). Since January 2023, OCV requests have surged, with 82 million doses requested by 15 countries, nearly double the 46 million doses produced during this period.
5 days ago · Overview. Data as of 28 April 2024. In April 2024 (epidemiological weeks 14 to 17), a total of 27 696 new cholera cases were reported from 19 countries, territories, and areas (hereafter countries) across four WHO regions, showing no significant changes (1% increase) from the past month.
6 days ago · Cholera is an acute infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and characterized by extreme diarrhea with rapid and severe depletion of body fluids and salts. In the past two centuries, seven pandemics of cholera have carried the disease to countries around the world.
May 13, 2024 · A longstanding mystery about the strain of Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae) responsible for the seventh global cholera pandemic is how this lineage has managed to out-compete other pathogenic variants. The UT team identified a unique quirk of the immune system that protects the bacteria from a key driver of bacterial evolution.
May 14, 2024 · May 13, 2024. Source: University of Texas at Austin. Summary: A longstanding mystery about the strain of Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae) responsible for the seventh global cholera pandemic is how...
