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An international aid agency says more resources are needed to combat Papua New Guinea's worsening outbreak of cholera. Since it was detected in Morobe province in August, cholera has spread 500 kilometres to the East Sepik province. Full Article at ABC Online
NOVEMBER 2008 still remains a dark month for the Dziruni family in Glen Norah B. It is now a year since they lost two daughters on the same day to a preventable and treatable water-borne disease -- cholera. Full Article at AllAfrica.com
A suspected cholera patient lies on the ground as an unidentified woman sits by him in the Wanleweyn district of southern Somalia, April 3, 2009. View Photo »
According to the United Nations, there have already been five cholera-related deaths and 116 people have been afflicted with the disease since September
NAIROBI, 11 December 2009 (IRIN) - An outbreak of cholera in northwest Kenya has killed at least 24 people over the past two weeks according to a senior health official. Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
Safe clean water is in dire shortage in India and other developing countries. Without it disease is rampant: typhoid, cholera, jaundice and diarrhoea (which will kill about 380,000 children in India alone this year). Full Article at Treehugger
Zimbabwe's HIV/AIDS infection rate has dropped to just more than 13 percent, one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to have an annual drop in new infections. Full Article at Voice of America
Family members administer medicine to a suspected cholera patient in the Wanleweyn district of southern Somalia, April 3, 2009. View Photo »
Older children and the elderly are especially vulnerable to severe illness from major food- and water-borne diseases such as salmonella, listeria, E. coli, Hepatitis A and cholera
In Pakistan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing medical assistance to a vulnerable population suffering the effects of political instability, poor access to adequate health care, and natural disasters. Full Article at Doctors Without Borders
A father sits with his child who is sick from cholera. Patients generally stay for three day at MSF's cholera treatment center in Timurgara, Lower Dir District, where they are rehydrated. Full Article at Doctors Without Borders
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Museum workers move a mummy during a press conference to launch an itinerant exhibit of 36 of the famous Mummies of Guanajuato, in Mexico City, on August 31, 2009.
View Photo »Museum workers move a mummy during a press conference to launch an itinerant exhibit of 36 of the famous Mummies of Guanajuato, in Mexico City, on August 31, 2009.
View Photo »Museum workers place on a table the mummy of the Mexican child known as Daniel during a press conference to launch an itinerant exhibit of 36 of the famous Mummies of Guanajuato, in Mexico City, on August 31, 2009.
View Photo »A displaced Somali girl carries her younger brother as she waits for food to be distributed at a camp outside Mogadishu July 22, 2009.
View Photo »A hardline Somali Islamist militant cleans his gun under a tree north of Mogadishu July 21, 2009. Intense fighting is making it increasingly difficult to deliver aid to Somalia, where it is crucial to combat cholera outbreaks and maintain food supplies, U.N. agencies said on Tuesday.
View Photo »A hardline Somali Islamist militant walks along an empty street north of Mogadishu July 21, 2009. Intense fighting is making it increasingly difficult to deliver aid to Somalia, where it is crucial to combat cholera outbreaks and maintain food supplies, U.N. agencies said on Tuesday.
View Photo »Hardline Somali Islamist militants take position during a stand-off between them and government forces north of Mogadishu July 21, 2009.
View Photo »FILE - In this Sunday, July 31, 1994 file picture, a bulldozer operated by a French soldier shovels bodies into a mass grave at the Kibumba refugee camp in Rwanda near Goma, Zaire. More than 1 million Rwandans had fled refugee camps in eastern Zaire where cholera spread.
View Photo »Karsi Tadicha and her children stand next to their house in Bule Duba village, on the outskirts of Moyale near the edge of Oroma and Somali regions of Ethiopia, June 12, 2009.
View Photo »Densa Tadicha, 10, collects water from a pond used by animals at El-Ley village in the drought affected region of Moyale June 12, 2009.
View Photo »An unidentified woman and baby fetch water from an unprotected source in Epworth, Harare, Tuesday, May, 26, 2009. According to the Zimbabwean Red Cross Society, cholera is slowing down but is still expected it to affect its 100,000th victim this week.
View Photo »Children fetch clean water from a borehole in Glen View, Harare, Tuesday, May, 26, 2009. The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, the worst in Africa in more than 15 years, is slowing but is still expected to reach 100,000 cases this week, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
View Photo »Children wait to fetch clean water from a borehole in Glenview, Harare, Tuesday, May, 26, 2009. The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, the worst in Africa in more than 15 years, is slowing but is still expected to reach 100,000 cases this week, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
View Photo »Children wait to fetch clean water from a borehole in Glenview, Harare, Tuesday, May, 26, 2008. The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, the worst in Africa in more than 15 years, is slowing but is still expected to reach 100,000 cases this week, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
View Photo »Children fetch clean water from a borehole in Glen View, Harare, Tuesday, May, 26, 2008. The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, the worst in Africa in more than 15 years, is slowing but is still expected to reach 100,000 cases this week, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
View Photo »An unidentified woman and baby fetch water from an unprotected source in Epworth, Harare, Tuesday, May, 26, 2008. According to the Zimbabwean Red Cross Society, cholera is slowing down but is still expected it to affect its 100,000th victim this week.
View Photo »A dog meat vendor stands behind two slaughtered dogs hung at his shop in Hanoi on May 18, 2009. Authorities in the Vietnamese capital have temporarily closed at least a dozen dog slaughter houses over fears that their unclean conditions may help spread the cholera bacteria to people.
View Photo »A dog slaughterhouse is seen in Hanoi on May 18, 2009. Authorities in the Vietnamese capital have temporarily closed at least a dozen dog slaughterhouses over fears that their unclean conditions may help spread the cholera bacteria to people.
View Photo »A dog meat vendor stands behind two slaughtered dogs hung at his shop in Hanoi on May 18, 2009. Authorities in the Vietnamese capital have temporarily closed at least a dozen dog slaughter houses over fears that their unclean conditions may help spread the cholera bacteria to people.
View Photo »A dog meat vendor weighs his produce at his shop in Hanoi on May 18, 2009. Authorities in the Vietnamese capital have temporarily closed at least a dozen dog slaughter houses over fears that their unclean conditions may help spread the cholera bacteria to people.
View Photo »Nepalese Hindu devotees perform ritual bathing at the traditional bathing place of Balaju in Kathmandu on April 9, 2009, on the occasion of The Lhuti Purnima Festival.
View Photo »Residents gather to collect water at a contaminated reservoir in Dafed village in southern Somalia�s Lower Shabelle region April 3, 2009.
View Photo »Residents gather to collect water at a contaminated reservoir in Dafed village in southern Somalia�s Lower Shabelle region April 3, 2009.
View Photo »A boy rests on his jerry cans as he queues for water near Mogadishu April 3, 2009. Acute watery diarrhoea has killed 35 people, mostly children, in the last week in central Somalia, and a cholera outbreak has claimed 47 lives in Kenya since December, officials said.
View Photo »A man attends to his sick son in their makeshift house in Dafed village in southern Somalia�s Lower Shabelle region April 3, 2009.
View Photo »Museum workers move a mummy during a press conference to launch an itinerant exhibit of 36 of the famous Mummies of Guanajuato, in Mexico City, on August 31, 2009.
View Photo »The organism is sensitive to tetracycline, ciprofloxacin and cefotaxim. Bugarama borders Congo and Burundi where there are rumors of ongoing cholera outbreak
The country has learned a lot from the cholera outbreak ... It has developed systems that will prevent a cholera outbreak of such a scale ever happening again. And the same system will be instrumental in protecting the public from the impact of this new H1N1 pandemic.
The country has learned a lot from the cholera outbreak ... It has developed systems that will prevent a cholera outbreak of such a scale ever happening again. And the same system will be instrumental in protecting the public from the impact of this new H1N1 pandemic.
The experts' meeting is preparatory to that of Ministers on Friday, which is expected to come out with guidelines in response to incessant disease outbreaks in the sub-region such as the deadly epidemics of cholera, meningitis, measles, viral hemorrhagic fevers between 1995 and 1996 as well as a recrude...
These items will support Zimbabwe's intensified response to the 2008-09 cholera outbreak that infected almost 100,000 people and killed about 4,000
As the rainy season [arrives] in this cholera endemic zone, it is very important to take measures that will allow for the spread of this epidemic to be contained
There are many theories on what influenced Bram in the creation and writing of Dracula ... The most credible theories centre on fact. The facts surrounding Dublin involve the time Bram spent as a sickly child, being told stories by his mother, many about Irish folklore, and the cholera epidemic that she...
We do not want to be overwhelmed by cholera as it was last year when no works were done on most drainages and surroundings in the district
A vast natural experiment reminiscent of John Snow's cholera investigation in 1854 London.
Water supply from the City Council is not consistent and sometimes we get water twice a week, which is not sufficient to cater for the institution's consumption especially in the toilets which makes us vulnerable to cholera
They put two drips into me and told me I had cholera. I didn't know what it was. My face had sunk in, my body was tiny
The water we are consuming is not suitable for drinking purpose and can cause cholera and stone problem. The board's decision to provide us potable water at nominal cost will improve the health condition of the members of our family
At the moment, we are not seeing a rapid increase in cases in Lae ... However, as cholera is a highly contagious disease, we must remain vigilant. We are continuing to monitor the situation and assess more remote areas. We are hearing reports that cholera is affecting smaller villages, so we are sending...
At the moment, we are not seeing a rapid increase in cases in Lae ... However, as cholera is a highly contagious disease, we must remain vigilant. We are continuing to monitor the situation and assess more remote areas. We are hearing reports that cholera is affecting smaller villages, so we are sending...
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