Floodwater generally triggers waterborne disease like cholera, jaundice, typhoid and several others, but officials with Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) of the Department of Health

With cases of cholera being reported from various parts of the state, the Ernakulam health department has issued a warning to contain the spread of the disease in the district.

AURANGABAD: Drinking water samples taken from nine talukas in the district put nine of the 858 gram panchayats (GP) under the red zone category, which means that these GPs failed to provide clean a

A week after yet another peace deal was signed for South Sudan, the threat of famine still stalks the world's youngest nation, where more than seven million people are at risk of hunger and disease

DIPAYAL: Coliform, a cholera virus, was detected in drinking water supplied to districts in remote far-west.

Experts say that the present outbreak of water-borne diseases is due to contamination in the drinking water being supplied to the general public.

A cheap and easy to deliver oral vaccine against cholera is 86 per cent effective in preventing the infection which causes severe diarrhea and can be fatal, researchers said today.

Cholera outbreak that has killed a girl and affected more than 700 people at Gaidatar village in Chandrapur Municipality in the past one month is yet to come under control.

The cholera outbreak that began around three weeks ago at Gaidatar settlement in Chandrapur-2 has also spread in the nearby Morange village.

Cholera outbreak at Gaidatar settlement in Chandraniga-hapur-2 of Rautahat for the past three weeks claimed its first victim on Monday— a 13-year-old girl.