This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Last week, the above chart (from The New York ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lebanese medical staff take care of an elderly woman, a victim of cholera outbreak, at a field hospital in the northern Lebanese ...

The London cholera epidemic of 1854 may be the primary subject of Steven Johnson's thought-provoking The Ghost Map, but it's the many secondary subjects that make it such an engaging read. Johnson ...

The top map shows the predicted cholera risk in Haiti based on analysis and satellite data two weeks after Hurricane Matthew hit. Blue color indicates low risk of cholera while red color indicates ...

Cholera is a major threat to public health, particularly in developing countries. University of Rhode Island’s Ali Shafqat Akanda and a team of researchers helped develop a warning system The Boston ...

Nearly two centuries separate the two epidemics—one began four years ago this month and the other in the summer of 1832—but they are otherwise strikingly similar, and the parallels offer some lessons ...

Cholera hotspots are set to be identified in five African countries this year to guide the development of a roadmap for prevention, control, and elimination of this infectious disease that remains ...