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

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 ...

(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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

South Sudan is facing a "completely overwhelming" influx of refugees from war-torn Sudan as well as a rapidly growing cholera epidemic, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Monday. The medical ...

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 ...

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 ...