640 gastroenteritis cases, 312 typhoid, 193 jaundice, and more: Ahmedabad logs over 1,000 waterborne illnesses in just 25 daysAhmedabad is grappling with a surge in waterborne diseases this summer, particularly in the eastern part of the city, due to contaminated d...
27 May, 2025, 09.20 PM IST
Bharat Biotech's cholera vaccine successfully completes Phase-III trialsBharat Biotech's oral Cholera Vaccine, Hillchol, has successfully completed phase III clinical trials, demonstrating non-inferiority agains...
21 May, 2025, 03.51 PM IST
El Nino of 1904-07 may have helped spread cholera in India, study findsResearchers found that unusual weather patterns driven by the El Nino event from 1904-1907 may have facilitated the spread of a new cholera...
02 Aug, 2024, 04.03 PM IST
Bengaluru PGs put on high alert after cholera cases detected in cityCholera cases at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute trigger an alert for PG owners from their association. Guidelines stress ...
09 Apr, 2024, 09.57 PM IST
Cholera scare at Bengaluru medical college. Two students test positive, four in ICUAccording to a representative from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) speaking to TOI, two medical students currently...
06 Apr, 2024, 06.27 PM IST
We've run out of cholera vaccines, WHO official says as disease surgesThe U.N. health agency says global fatality rates are rising and there are around 30 countries around the world that have reported cholera ...
16 Dec, 2022, 04.57 PM IST
In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerveWhile no human cholera case was found among people who came in contact with the softshell turtles, the specific store selling them was orde...
15 Jul, 2022, 08.01 AM IST
New cholera vaccine in clinical stage promises to end supply shortageCholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by food or water carrying the vibrio cholerae bacteria.
27 Jun, 2019, 09.45 AM IST
Indian peacekeepers in Haiti administered cholera vaccinesLast year, then UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon had apologised to the people of Haiti for the world body's role in failing to properly add...
13 Jul, 2018, 12.36 PM IST
Shantha Biotechnics gets WHO nod for cholera vaccineThe vaccine is the second “mass campaign” vaccine and first cholera vaccine worldwide to receive such a stamp of approval for storage and d...
26 Feb, 2018, 04.24 PM IST
Hilleman Laboratories receives Swedish grant for oral cholera vaccineThe World Health Organisation estimates that there are nearly every year there are roughly 1.3 to 4 million cases Cholera cases globally an...
28 Sep, 2017, 04.51 PM IST
UN wants more info from India on anti-cholera vaccination claimsThe Indian soldiers had landed in Haiti in August last year and reportedly India had certified that they were administered the cholera vacc...
10 Jan, 2017, 11.48 AM IST
140 Indian soldiers to be given cholera vaccination in HaitiHaiti has been grappling with a cholera outbreak. The Indian soldiers had landed in Haiti in August last year and reportedly India had cert...
09 Jan, 2017, 09.47 PM IST
Indian troops enter Haiti without cholera vaccination, face UN probeThe UN has sought a clarification from India as to why it confirmed the troops had been vaccinated. The UN has been accused of having cause...
09 Jan, 2017, 05.50 PM IST
Rice can help treat cholera better: StudyReplacing glucose with rice powder in the oral rehydration therapy for cholera can reduce toxicity by almost 75 per cent, a new study has f...
05 Dec, 2014, 05.02 PM IST
- 3,00,000 Zimbabweans threatened by cholera: Oxfam
Oxfam warned that Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic posed a "grave danger" to 300,000 people already weakened by food shortages, as the governmen...
05 Dec, 2008, 07.29 AM IST
- 700 cholera cases reported in capital
It is the time of cholera in Delhi and the cases have shot up way above 700.
15 Jul, 2007, 05.07 AM IST