In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

Urban areas, which are home to more than half of the 8 billion people on the planet, are known to be heating faster than ...

A view of Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan.Water Aid/Khaula Jamil Map shows global drying and wetting hotspots. A new ...

Many of the world's biggest cities are facing too much or too little water. Regional solutions are helping vulnerable communities become more resilient.

The abrupt cancelation by the FDA of the vaccine advisory committee meeting to determine next flu season’s vaccine has potentially catastrophic public health implications.

Farmers have been suffering for over 10 years due to the spillage of raw sewage from the metro’s dysfunctional Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant into rivers and streams in the area.

He appointed former Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at PriceWaterhouseCoopers ... The committee produced a road map harmonising the National Economic Council report on the flood ...

Patients visiting any one of Kenya’s 10,000 health facilities face drug stock outs or with layoffs of 54,000 health workers, too few health workers to treat malaria, cholera, cancer and TB.

Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on ...

Namibia has recorded its first case of cholera in nearly a decade, in a region bordering Angola where an outbreak has killed ...

The study, published in the journal BMJ Global Health in January, assessed cholera elimination attempts in the World Health ...

The full article is available here as HTML. [ACCRA] Climate change and conflict are fuelling a resurgence of cholera in Africa, with progress toward elimination undermined by chronic underfunding, ...