The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the 19th century. Starting in 1819, a series of cholera pandemics spread the ...

This is a compilation of three films for KS3 History students about a public health issue of the 19th century - the Cholera epidemic. The Cholera epidemic of 1832 affected Europe, London and then ...

Scientists have revealed the spread of a highly drug-resistant cholera strain. Scientists from the National Reference Center for Vibrios and Cholera at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with ...

A strain resistant to 10 antibiotics—including azithromycin and ciprofloxacin, two of the three recommended for treating cholera—was identified for the first time in Yemen during the cholera ...