Cholera is caused when the bacterium Vibrio cholerae infects the small intestine, resulting in severe diarrhea and vomiting, which can result in dehydration and death. The main treatment involves oral ...
In the mid-1800s, physicians gathered around a man who was being treated for cholera in the city of Puducherry on the southeastern coast of India. At the time, no one understood it was a bacterial ...
From Haiti to Syria to Pakistan, UNICEF is rushing supplies for cholera treatment and prevention, focusing on the most vulnerable. Dr. Fatima Adeli and her UNICEF-supported mobile health and nutrition ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Racing against time, a yellow tuk-tuk collected nine-year-old Salaeh Mohammed from an internally displaced persons camp and rushed him to a cholera treatment ...
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Milk and wheat proteins identified as potent defenses against cholera
A glass of milk and a slice of bread do not look like medicine. But a new study from UC Riverside suggests that certain ...
The Saudi embassy in the United States pointed the finger at Doctors Without Borders after the US-backed Saudi coalition bombed the medical humanitarian group’s newly constructed cholera treatment ...
Cholera is on the rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here’s how you can help UNICEF protect the lives of children at risk. A UNICEF-supported health worker disinfects a house for cholera in ...
Family Physicians have emphasised that cholera, though fatal, was preventable if the government at all levels and relevant stakeholders would do the needful. They spoke in separate interviews with the ...
When Hurricane Matthew steamrolled southern Haiti earlier this month, it wiped out houses, bridges and roads. It also decimated sanitation systems, putting the Caribbean island nation at risk of ...
A deadly resurgence of cholera in Haiti has claimed 136 lives so far, according to the Caribbean nation’s health ministry. Eighty-nine of the people who were infected died in a hospital or in cholera ...
Though undeniably effective, the current rehydration therapy for cholera could increase the toxicity of the cholera bacterium, researchers have discovered. Backed with new data, the scientists propose ...
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