Three cholera epidemics struck 19th-century Leiden. Today's coronavirus pandemic prompted Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at the Leiden University Libraries, to scour the library for maps ...

Last Friday, a friend doing research at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta sent me a photo of a display at the CDC’s in-house museum. She thought I’d be interested because ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lebanese medical staff take care of an elderly woman, a victim of cholera outbreak, at a field hospital in the northern Lebanese ...

The top map shows the predicted cholera risk in Haiti based on analysis and satellite data two weeks after Hurricane Matthew hit. Blue color indicates low risk of cholera while red color indicates ...

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Cholera is a major threat to public health, particularly in developing countries. University of Rhode Island’s Ali Shafqat Akanda and a team of researchers helped develop a warning system The Boston ...

Nearly two centuries separate the two epidemics—one began four years ago this month and the other in the summer of 1832—but they are otherwise strikingly similar, and the parallels offer some lessons ...