A surprising new study reveals that what you eat could play a powerful role in fighting cholera, a deadly diarrheal disease. Researchers found that diets rich in certain proteins—especially casein ...

Despite the high prevalence of cholera in Bangladesh and substantial evidence for migration of V. cholerae sub-lineages there, few of them have spread to other countries. Cholera is a waterborne ...

Cholera is an acute infection caused by contaminated food or water. It first hit Europe and North America between 1831 and 1832, but originated centuries before in India. Cholera is not endemic to the ...

Access to clean water and good sanitation is crucial to staying healthy and well. The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the ...

Also known as the ‘Golden Square outbreak’, the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak remains one of the most important events in the history of public health, health geography and epidemiology. In 1854, ...