Slum residents could soon win the fight against cholera after the county government announced plans to introduce special-package water.

Zambia says it has made progress in containing a cholera outbreak that has killed about 70 people in the southern African nation since October.

It is neither terrorism nor natural disasters but the unavailability of safe drinking water which leads to the highest number of deaths in Pakistan.

SHIMLA: With the existing dry weather conditions posing threat of jaundice and some cases already being reported from Mandi, Solan and Shimla districts, Himachal Pradesh chief secretary Vineet Chaw

Zambia has now decided to relax regulations it imposed to curb the spread of cholera.

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia on Sunday relaxed rules imposed to curb the spread of cholera as the number of new cases being reported has halved, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya said.

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Residents in a slum in Zambia’s capital are rioting over a ban on street vending that was imposed to control a cholera outbreak, the government said on Friday.

A health report of the city revealed by the health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) states that in the first week of January, 205 water-borne cases were reported by AMC-run hospi

Thiruvananthapuram: The health department has begun close monitoring at Pulluvila in the wake of diarrhoea cases being reported in the panchayat.

Panic swept the labour sheds at Belagere in Varthur where a cholera-like epidemic has claimed the lives of three and left 19 ill.