Polk and Zachary Taylor. Today, cholera is a disease that largely impacts less developed and impoverished countries, "typically in regions of the world with poor infrastructure, conflict or ...

Cholera was one of the most devastating diseases to hit Europe in the 19th century, with a series of epidemics taking hundreds of thousands of lives. And because its cause was a mystery, people were ...

by the spread of disease." (As portrayed by Benoit Girard in Canada: A People's History) Three days later, cholera took its first victim. The illness spread like wildfire all the way to Montreal ...

South Sudan is suffering its worst cholera outbreak since it became an independent nation in 2011, the United Nations warned ...

After deploying life-saving cholera-prediction systems in Africa and Asia, a University of Florida researcher is turning his ...

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 ...