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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has placed 10 states on high alert following forecasts of heavy rainfall and flooding, warning that the affected regions face an elevated risk of disease outbreaks, particularly cholera.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Director-General of the NCDC, Jide Idris, said projections by the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Nigerian Meteorological Agency indicate that parts of Adamawa State, Enugu State, Kaduna State, Kogi State, Nig
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Cholera can quickly become life-threatening, but the best defense might be sitting in your pantry.
New research from UC Riverside in Southern California reveals that a high-protein diet can effectively "disarm" the bacteria, slash infection levels by 100-fold, and stop the disease in its tracks before it turns fatal.
Published in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, the study found that diets rich in casein, the main protein in milk and cheese, along with wheat gluten, could limit cholera bacteri
It is feared that a pensioner has passed away after contracting cholera - in what would be the first case of its kind in Britain for 125 years.
The unnamed father-of-two, who was in his 80s, died on Tuesday at the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton with his family beside him.
He had fallen ill around a week ago at home and was admitted to the Warwickshire-based hospital when his condition quickly deteriorated.
There were initially fears that he had caught the waterborne disease cholera, which k
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children's Fund said stocks of oral cholera vaccines in the global stockpile they manage had improved to nearly 70 million doses last year.
The vaccines are distributed free to countries that need them, but they had
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