Every few years, we read the headlines about a new, or resurgent, disease that threatens global health. Fears of transfer erupt and hysteria sets in, at least in the initial months. If someone coughs ...

On October 19 an inspector sent north from London to Sunderland reported a long-awaited arrival: the first British case of cholera. It was 1831 and as part of a second pandemic cholera had again ...

While the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic is frequently cited during the COVID-19 crisis, let us go back further in time to the Holy Land in the early 19th century. There we find cholera epidemics ...

Five 19th century U.S. presidents were confronted by devastating cholera epidemics. Unlike Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s endeavors with the coronavirus, these early chief executives did not ha… ...

Paris (AFP) – Cholera, which has made a comeback in Haiti three years after a devastating outbreak, is a highly contagious waterborne bacterial disease that can kill in a matter of hours. The ...

The cholera epidemic wreaked havoc and caused millions of deaths in many countries. Cholera still takes its toll on people today with between 21,000 to 143,000 annual deaths according to the World ...

Studies of oral rehydration methods to treat cholera and other diseases went back to the 19th century but gained increased attention in the 1960s by health scientists including Dilip Mahalanabis ...

Cholera is a water-borne disease that was responsible for killing thousands of people during the 19th century Europe. Find out how it was eradicated in this 3rd level BBC Bitesize article..

How the 1854 cholera outbreak led to the birth of the modern ... them all was the creation of the London sewers and really one of the most extraordinary engineering achievements of the 19th century.