Cholera News

Residents of Kanyogoga throw plastic bags containing faeces onto the roofs of their neighbours' houses at night, from which water is harvested In Chinua Achebe's book, Things Fall Apart, during one harvest, Okonkwo asked for seedlings from Nwakibie, a great man of the village.

NGOs and aid groups should collaborate with Haitians, not perpetuate an often harmful 'we'll tell you what to do' culture More than half of global cholera cases occur in Haiti, where it is usually transmitted via contaminated drinking water.

The latest issue of Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology investigates a quantitative PCR assay for rapid detection of pathogens directly from stools of travelers with diarrhea.

Diarrhoeal disease, which is responsible for one in every ten child deaths globally, is caused due to rotavirus.

Masaka Town clerk Johnson Munono Baryantuma has given all commercial buildings which were disconnected from piped water over nonpayment in Masaka municipality a week's ultimatum to pay the bills or else face closure.

A study has confirmed that rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhoea, the second largest killer of children across the world, and vaccines to contain the virus can change the situation dramatically.

Haiti's government Monday called on the public to act against cholera infections especially in the capital Port-au-Prince where one fourth of all cholera cases have occurred, local media said.

Advocates for over 5,000 victims of cholera in Haiti put the UN on notice that they intend to file suit in a national court if the UN continues its refusal to provide compensation for its negligence in introducing cholera to the country.

Contaminated water will probably never stomp all over Chicago, try to enslave the human race or foolishly explain it's dastardly scheme while a hero plots his escape.

Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association , doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2013.03.037 BACKGROUND: & Aims: Every year 80 million tourists travelling to tropical and subtropical areas contract traveler's diarrhea .

ISLAMABAD: With the summer season setting in, the sale of unhygienic and adulterated food items and juices at bus stops and public places has started playing havoc with the health and lives of citizens.

Each project under the Stars in Global Health programme will receive CAN$100,000 according to Peter Singer, chief executive officer of the non-profit organisation Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Canadian government.

By Watuwa Timbiti At a communal water spring in Kinawataka, a low-end squalid suburb of Kampala, children with all sorts of repulsively dirty containers are not only collecting water, but equally littering the water point with rubbish.

Currently, 1 in 9 people in the world lack access to clean drinking water putting them at risk for debilitating diarrhea, typhoid, and cholera.

The victims include the families of the 8000 people who have died and hundreds of thousands of people who have fallen sick Victims of Haiti's cholera epidemic have given the United Nations a 60-day deadline to start talks about billions of dollars worth of compensation or face legal action.

LC I chairperson Kimwanyi zone Peter Mugerwa, says the continuous rainfall has pushed up the water levels in Lake Victoria leading to flooding.

Five months after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised to "use every opportunity" to push for funding to eliminate cholera from Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic, government officials in both nations are still waiting on donors to open their wallets.

A subset of non-O1/non-O139 serogroup strains of V. cholerae cause disease using Type Three Secretion System mediated mechanisms.

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the annual food safety report card.

Diarrhoea remains the third cause of death among children under age five, accounting for 10,000 deaths annually.