A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and sickened more than 2,500 over the past week.

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed over 170 people in a week, officials say People fill water containers at a distribution point due to water outages in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, May 25, 2025.

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 ...

Cholera Outbreak Traced to Holy Water From Ethiopia At least six people in the UK and Germany ended up in the hospital after consuming water from the Bermel Georgis holy well in Northern Ethiopia.

Holy water brimming with cholera compels illness cluster in Europe Testing found that the holy water was "heavily contaminated." ...

Cholera crisis: UNICEF, Bayelsa raise concern over alarming rate of open defecation •Say only 40% of riverine residents have access to clean water ...

Southern and eastern African countries are facing a resurgence of cholera, threatening worldwide progress toward eliminating the disease, a recent analysis warns.

Here's what cholera is, what causes it and how it can be prevented and treated. What is cholera? Cholera is a bacterial infection of the intestines that leads to severe diarrhea and rapid ...

A series of publications from microbiologist Fitnat Yildiz’s lab provides new understanding of cholera biofilms and why the bacteria in biofilms are so highly infectious.

In the great attack of 1830, the pestilence raged all Winter frightfully in St. Petersburgh, and broke out in England first in October, remaining torpid, as it were, till the next Spring, and then ...

WHO this week announced that cholera cases increased by 13% and cholera deaths increased by 71% globally in 2023.

For the second consecutive year Sudan is in the grip of a cholera outbreak that has left at least 28 people dead in the last month as rains fall in areas crammed with those fleeing the country's ...