In such places, cholera infects between one and four million people every year, per the World Health Organization, and ...

The number of new cholera cases is down worldwide to start the year, despite a new outbreak in Angola, according to the ...

Climate change and conflict are fuelling a resurgence of cholera in Africa, with progress toward elimination undermined by chronic underfunding, according to new analysis.In 2024, more than 175,000 ...

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

The WHO has orchestrated two mass vaccination campaigns during pauses of fighting in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

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 ...

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

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 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.

"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.