A team of US-based scientists and engineers have developed a mobile phone app that predicts and maps cholera, a contagious and sometimes deadly disease that in past killed millions of people and ...

The aftermath of an outbreak of cholera during the 1830s is shown in an 1849 map of Exeter, UK. (Source: Thomas Shapter and Charles Risdon) Seaman mapped the relationship between yellow fever ...

In September (2024), the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the world saw 13% more cholera cases in 2023 than in 2022, while deaths from the diseases surged up by 71% to more than 4,000.

Figuring out better plans for managing cholera is especially urgent because outbreaks are on the rise. Cases and deaths have spiked by about a third in the past year, likely related to mass ...

Angola's cholera outbreak has claimed more than 300 lives: WHO. Mar 30, 2025. Cholera outbreak kills more than 100 in Angola: Ministry. Feb 11, 2025.

The U.N. health agency says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering in crowded camps as deadly fighting grinds on between the ...

The Global Task Force for Cholera Control — a collaboration between the WHO, GAVI, and other stakeholders — had released a road map to reducing cholera deaths by 90 percent by 2030, and poor ...

CAIRO (AP) — A leading medical group warned on Tuesday of a rising number of cholera cases in war-torn Sudan as a new outbreak of the waterborne disease grips the country, and said its teams ...

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This year cholera had claimed 2,400 more lives by August, according to the WHO, which works with the Global Taskforce for Cholera Control, provider of a cholera-warning phone app for health workers.