Chennai: Water-borne diseases, mostly caused by contaminated water and food, peaked in the city in Dec, indicating poor sanitary conditions and water contamination. Experts say cases surged ...

With overcrowded shelters and unsanitary conditions worsening by the day, the risk of a cholera outbreak and other waterborne diseases is escalating, further endangering an already vulnerable ...

Angola has recorded 3,402 cholera cases and 114 deaths since the outbreak began in early January, according to the Health Ministry's daily press release. Since February 1, Angola has been reporting ...

A total of 104,585 people have received doses of the oral cholera vaccine in Chililabombwe, Zambia's hardest-hit district in Copperbelt Province in the latest cholera outbreak, Minister of Health ...

Pune residents are alarmed over a potential water contamination following a surge in Guillain-Barre Syndrome cases.

The Ethiopia tourism site cautions people against drinking the country's tap water and brushing their teeth with it, as it can cause waterborne diseases. I spent the rest of my layover monitoring any ...

Rising global temperatures are accelerating the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses such as dengue, malaria and Zika, as well as waterborne diseases like cholera and shigella, putting displaced ...

Visits to these communities revealed that the situation has become dire, with residents, majorly children and women seen fetching water from dirty wells despite the risk of waterborne diseases.

The filthy water made a big population, especially women and children, contract waterborne diseases, they said. They deplored that Municipal Corporation Mirpurkhas’ mayor Abdul Raoof Ghori did ...

A method for the simultaneous detection of disease-causing bacteria ... project will next be used to investigate the genetic epidemiology of food- and water-borne multiresistant Campylobacter and ...