The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the 19th century. Starting in 1819, a series of cholera pandemics spread the ...

In the years 1880 to 1920, we literally transformed the health environment,” says David Rosner, a professor of history and public health at Columbia University, and author of the book, Building the ...

Health ministry executive director Ben Nangombe says Namibia has not recorded any cholera cases in the past 10 years.Nangombe, who was speaking during a cholera elimination validation workshop ...

Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule The spectre of cholera hung over Tchaikovsky's life from his earliest childhood. In the early 19th century most people believed the disease was ...