Cholera is caused by ingesting a bacteria known as Vibrio cholerae. It's found in contaminated water and food, explains Ivers, which then produces a toxin in the small intestine that leads to the ...

A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become ...

Cholera is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. Cholera Epidemic Cholera , first found in India, was spread from bacteria in the Ganges delta.

A new study by the Genomics and Microbial Evolution Group at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) together with the ...

The cholera research, published in Cell Host & Microbe, was led by Sun-Young Kim, a Ph.D. candidate at UT. Cholera, the deadly diarrheal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria, causes severe ...

The cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached an "acute phase," with infections still rising ...

Cholera is caused by ingesting a bacteria known as Vibrio cholerae. It's found in contaminated water and food, explains Ivers, which then produces a toxin in the small intestine that leads to the ...

UNICEF is working with Sudan's Ministry of Health and other partners to protect children from cholera. More supplies and ...

In such places, cholera infects between one and four million people every year, per the World Health Organization, and contributes to some 21,000 to 143,000 deaths annually. Start the day smarter.