Cholera is an acute watery diarrhoeal disease caused by toxins from O1 and O139 serogroups of the bacteria vibrio cholerae.1 ...
When a forest is lost to development, some effects are obvious. Stumps and mud puddles across the landscape, a plowed field or houses a year after that. But deforestation isn't just a loss of trees; ...
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, international health officials have been deployed to help stave the spread of a ...
The WHO says 406 cases of the disease have been recorded and that more than half of those who died were children younger than ...
More than 400 people have become ill, and between 31 and 143 have died, due to an undiagnosed illness in central Africa.
It is almost impossible to treat an illness like the Disease X that's spreading in DR Congo — when medics don't even know whether it is a viral or bacterial infection.  So far, the DRC has recorded ...
The World Health Organization has recorded more than 400 cases of a mysterious deadly flu-like illness dubbed “Disease X” in ...
An undiagnosed disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has infected more than 400 people since October, the ...
A mystery disease is spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, affecting mainly children and severely malnourished ...
A mystery disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading mainly among children and putting severely malnourished ...