Our 19th century super sewers turn 150 this year, but before the Great Stink, festering cesspits had to be cleared out by ...

In 1854, physician John Snow traced a deadly London cholera outbreak to a single water pump, challenging the dominant “miasma” theory that disease was caused by bad air. Authorities resisted his ...

UNICEF is working with Sudan's Ministry of Health and other partners to protect children from cholera. More supplies and essential medicines are urgently needed.

A major cholera outbreak, thought to have started at a popular Lexington tavern, killed about 7% of the city’s population in 1833.

These countries are thought to account for 84 percent of total cases and 92 percent of deaths that have been reported due to cholera in Africa in 2025 so far. Health officials in Ivory Coast have also ...

Authorities in Ivory Coast have announced an outbreak of cholera after confirming seven people have died from the disease.

A cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill over the past week. Authorities said on Tuesday that most of the cases were ...

CAIRO (AP) — A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan, killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week. Centered around Khartoum, the disease has spread as ...