In the mid-1800s, physicians gathered around a man who was being treated for cholera in the city of Puducherry on the southeastern coast of India. At the time, no one understood it was a bacterial ...

Disease killed 6 percent of the city's population and a fire that started on the landing destroyed 15 blocks that disastrous ...

The cholera epidemic in Yemen is now the largest and fastest growing outbreak of the disease in modern history — the result of a crippling war that has devastated the country, long the poorest in the ...

These days, cholera is largely an African disease, with over 95 percent of all cases worldwide over the past two decades occurring in Africa. In his informative history of the seven cholera pandemics ...

A cartoon from an 1852 issue of Punch shows the unsanitary conditions in London slums, which led to cholera outbreaks. Cholera can kill a person in a matter of hours. It's a severe gastrointestinal ...

Yemenis stand outside makeshift tents receiving cholera cases amid an acute cholera outbreak, at a hospital in Sana a, Yemen, July 22, 2017. Yemen is currently experiencing the worst cholera outbreak ...

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Editor's note: This story was republished on October 7 to include new information on Sudan's cholera outbreak. Cholera is making news again. The latest outbreak is in Sudan. In early September, an ...

Vaccine production must be expanded to combat this ancient disease, especially in Africa. But a lack of political will is holding us back Hakainde Hichilema is president of Zambia. Tedros Adhanom ...

During the final week of October, earthquake-ravaged Haiti scrambled to contain a sudden outbreak of cholera that threatened to turn into a full-scale epidemic. Once a global malady, the intestinal ...

Cholera can kill a person in a matter of hours. It's a severe gastro-intestinal disease, and it can trigger so much diarrhea and vomiting that patients can rapidly become dehydrated. They losing so ...