"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.

Angola's cholera outbreak has now claimed 329 lives, the World Health Organization said Saturday, warning that the risk of ...

GENEVA: A cholera outbreak in Angola has killed more than 300 people and spread to 16 of the country’s 21 provinces, with the ...

Angola is facing a worsening cholera outbreak, with 8,543 cases and 329 deaths recorded across 16 of its 21 provinces as of ...

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 Central Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has begun an exercise to vaccinate more than half a million people against cholera in the coming days ...

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) remains concerned about the potential spread of cholera in Haiti, with new suspected cases being reported ...

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The resource-rich African nation has been experiencing a substantial cholera outbreak since January, with a total of 8,543 ...

The last thing Haiti needs is a resurgence of Cholera in the country, but it appears cases are rising and so is concern at ...