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, ...

Houthis are obstructing aid work and access to information, exacerbating a deadly cholera outbreak spreading across the country. The cholera outbreak will continue to take lives so long as Yemeni ...

Lack of access to clean water is a factor in the spread of cholera. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images It can be spread when people do not wash their hands with soap and water after defecating and then ...

European tourists who toted home bottles of water from a holy well in Ethiopia were likely hoping for blessings and spiritual cleansing—but instead carried an infectious curse and got an intestinal ...