“Vaccination also plays a critical role. Vaccines are available for some waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, ...

A Sudanese girl receives an oral cholera vaccine during a 10-day vaccination campaign conducted by health ministry workers in ...

ANYANG GARANG in Juba, South SudanSouth Sudan BureauJUBA, (CAJ News) - MORE than 1 500 people have died from South Sudan’s largest and longest cholera outbreak. The deaths are from nearly 100 000 ...

THE Civil Protection Unit has activated its disaster management systems from national to grassroots level in anticipation of cyclones that will hit Sadc countries as the rainy season starts.

L’Hôpital Universitaire La Paix in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is the only public hospital functioning in the capital. Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, ...

The conflict in Sudan is escalating, causing greater suffering for civilians. Half a million people have fled El Fasher with no access to shelter, while a cholera epidemic has spread across all 18 ...

Bauchi State has recorded 58 deaths and 528 new cases of cholera across 14 of its 20 Local Government Areas, the State Government has confirmed. Deputy Governor Alhaji Muhammadu Auwak Jatau made the ...

ABUJA (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak has killed 58 people and infected more than 250 across Bauchi State in northeast Nigeria, authorities said on Friday, prompting the launch of new committees to ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its global cholera statistics for 2024, showing an increase in both the number of people who fell sick and died from the disease. Reported cholera ...

Health officials have recorded 28 suspected cases and 15 fatalities so far in the latest outbreak of the deadly virus, which has claimed thousands of lives in previous outbreaks in the Central African ...

"Action is needed, not tomorrow, but really now," said Yap Boum of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. He's talking about a disease that has been around for centuries — cholera — ...