Experts have used a cutting-edge computational approach to discover the genetic factors that make the bacteria behind cholera so dangerous -- which could be key to preventing this deadly disease. The ...

Cholera has largely been beaten in the west, but it still kills tens of thousands of people in poorer countries every year. As we search for a cure for coronavirus, we have to make sure it will be ...

Researchers from the University of Nottingham and Bangladesh have utilized machine learning and genomics to identify genetic traits in Vibrio cholerae linked to severe cholera symptoms. Their findings ...

Recent disease modeling research challenges public health guidelines recommending conservative antibiotic use for cholera, suggesting that for some outbreaks, prescribing antibiotics more aggressively ...

While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics followed, ...

The Haitian government is working to prevent a cholera outbreak in the north-west of the country moving to the capital Port-au-Prince. More than a million people are still living in camps in the city, ...