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1 day ago · Cases of cholera – an acute disease transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated food or water – have been rising globally since 2021. In 2022, 473,000 cases were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) – more than double the number reported the previous year. Preliminary data for 2023 shows a further surge, with over 700,000 ...
1 day ago · Cholera ( / ˈkɒlərə /) is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. [4] [3] Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. [3] The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea lasting a few days. [2] Vomiting and muscle cramps may also occur. [3]
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3 days ago · Third cholera pandemic: 1846–1860 Worldwide Cholera: 1 million+ 1853 Ottoman Empire plague epidemic 1853 Ottoman Empire: Bubonic plague: Unknown 1853 Copenhagen cholera outbreak: 1853 Copenhagen, Denmark Cholera: 4,737 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak: 1854 London, England Cholera: 616 1855 Norfolk yellow fever epidemic 1855
2 days ago · Offering insights from previous pandemics and public health crises — cholera, smallpox, HIV/AIDS, the opioid overdose crisis, and more — the series looks to history to show how public health ...
3 days ago · Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46399-1. Carnegie Mellon University biologists have discovered that Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria behind the cholera disease, can ...
4 days ago · Cholera has killed nine people in the last week across Somalia and more than 50 in recent months, UN aid teams said on Monday. The alert from UN aid coordination office, OCHA, confirms that the preventable disease is spreading, with increasing numbers of infections reported in Hirshabelle, Puntland and South West states.
1 day ago · Nachega is one of a number of public health experts expressing alarm over a major outbreak of mpox – formerly called monkeypox – in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They say the current ...