Unsanitary, cramped conditions Cholera broke out in many of the ships that were commissioned to repatriate more than 6.6 million Japanese people at the end of World War Two. Footage believed to ...

With diseases such as cholera killing thousands large-scale public works were planned in cities like Glasgow to improve conditions. Video: In Search of Scotland: The Victorian Achievement.

(As portrayed by Benoit Girard in Canada: A People's History) Three days later, cholera took its first victim. The illness spread like wildfire all the way to Montreal and then to Upper Canada.

On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake dealt Haiti and its capital Port-au-Prince a catastrophic blow, killing at least ...

The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the 19th century. Starting in 1819, a series of cholera pandemics spread the ...

Did you know that cholera has claimed a life in every 16 people affected in the past three months? The Ministry of Health ...

as cholera overtook the population, killing thousands. His battle against the disease landed him in the history books—and his story is worthy of an epic biopic.

Yemen is now facing the worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world, the United Nations has warned. A statement by Unicef and the World Health Organization says the number of suspected cholera ...

Cholera has claimed the life of Charles Kazadi (C), a father of a three-year-old child I met Andrew Kazadi just after his 26-year-old nephew died of cholera at a treatment centre in Zambia's ...

According to the WHO, Yemen has experienced persistent cholera transmissions for many years, including the world’s largest outbreak in recent history from 2017 to 2020 with more than 2.5 million ...

A drug-resistant cholera strain has spread to multiple countries. It resists ten antibiotics, including two key treatments. The strain originated in Yemen. It has reached Lebanon, Kenya ...

According to WHO, around 27 countries have reported cholera outbreaks in the first nine months of this year. The prevalence rates of cholera in India are 6.7% and 1.4% in rural and urban areas ...