The earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people has set the stage for a potential cholera crisis in Nepal — the same country that unwittingly exported the devastating disease to Haiti after its ...

First the quake, now the disease. The earthquake in Nepal on 25 April drove 2.8 million people into tents with little clean water or sanitation. Infections like hepatitis and diarrhoea are now ...

United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal likely did bring cholera into Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake last year, according to a new study published this week in mBio, a journal of the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The cholera outbreak that has claimed 13 lives in the remote west of the country prompted Nepal to issue a warning for foreign travelers. KATHMANDU, Nepal — The cholera outbreak ...

Rescuers in Nepal struggled to retrieve bodies Sunday amid fears of a cholera outbreak after monsoon rains swept away houses, killing at least 85 people and stranding thousands more, among also many t ...

Pasang Sherpa has enough problems without worrying about cholera. Originally from the town of Nuwakot, Nepal, Sherpa now lives in the Kathmandu neighborhood of Chabahil. The area is pleasant enough, ...

In a bid to contain spread of cholera, Kathmandu and Lalitpur district public health offices said they had chlorinated hundreds of wells in the disease-hit areas. Lalitpur and Kathmandu DPHOs took the ...

Researchers working in a Flagstaff research laboratory have helped to pinpoint the source of a cholera outbreak that killed 6,000 in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake. The cholera in Haiti was ...

More than 100 years after the eradication of cholera in the island nation of Haiti, the disease has reemerged with a vengeance. A new study out of Yale University traces the outbreak back to an ...

Last Friday, a friend doing research at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta sent me a photo of a display at the CDC’s in-house museum. She thought I’d be interested because ...