The number of cholera cases reported in 2024 has declined compared with 2023, but deaths have more than doubled, according to ...

As the threat of disease looms, Israel has intensified attacks on health care, striking near a major hospital on Monday.

Today's health news includes a Biden proposal for health insurers to cover OTC birth control like Plan B and condoms.

There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the ...

The seventh pandemic of cholera—an easily preventable and treatable disease—has claimed millions of lives since 1961, driven ...

And yet against all odds, we’ve been able to administer the first doses of the polio vaccine to 559,161 children. I have been ...

The International Rescue Committee is warning a sharp increase in cholera cases has emerged in the wake of recent floods in ...

Lebanon confirmed on Wednesday the country’s first cholera case since 2022, and since the beginning of the Israeli offensive.

Speaking in Geneva late Wednesday, Tedros noted that the Lebanese health authorities had launched an oral vaccination drive ...

Cholera is a waterborne disease caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria of the serogroups 01 and 139, usually occurring due to inadequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene. This ...