While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, ...

Cholera is a deadly diarrhoeal disease spread through ingesting contaminated food and water. Entirely preventable, it can kill within hours if a severe case is left untreated. The World Health ...

Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have uncovered what gives Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, the ability to colonize the human gut. The researchers found that a ...

Cholera is making a comeback. A new outbreak in Angola, West Africa, started on Jan. 7, and is likely to get worse as it spreads to more rural regions. Thus far this year, there have been ...

Nearly 60 people have been killed and more than 1,300 sickened over the last three days due to an outbreak of cholera in a ...

(L to R) First author Deepak Balasubramanian, PhD, and corresponding author Salvador Almagro-Moreno, PhD, both of the St. Jude Department of Host-Microbe Interactions. Infectious diseases remain the ...

A small string of nucleic acids decides if the cholera bacterium can infect humans or live in the environment. Infectious diseases remain the leading cause of pediatric mortality worldwide. V.