While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second ...

Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, the Acting Director General, of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has urged the public to ...

Louise Ivers is an associate physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a member of the Special Consulting Group to the Minister of Health and Population ...

He Central Regional Minister, Eduamoah Ekow Panyin Okyere, last Thursday joined residents of Winneba in the Effutu Municipality of the Central Region for a massive clean-up as part of efforts to curb ...

The Effutu Directorate of the Ghana Health Service has confirmed 29 of the 300 suspected cholera cases with two deaths, ...

The campaign aimed to interrupt cholera transmission in all districts and reduce the fatality rate from 3.2% to below 1%, which the World Health Organization considers a controlled cholera outbreak.

The European Union (EU) has allocated GH¢1.6 million (€100,000) in humanitarian funding to assist communities affected by the ...

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, has launched a four-day Cholera Vaccination Campaign to curb the spread of the disease and sensitise the public to maintain ...

"to shorten the purging and kill the bacteria to reduce the onward transmission of the disease." Prompt treatment like this "lowers the fatality rate of cholera to less than 1%," says Nagata.